2024 Best Biotechnology Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
18
Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
750
Master's Degrees
If you pursue a master's degree in
biotechnology, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #109 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual reviewed 18 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of biotechnology. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 750 master's degrees in biotechnology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Biotechnology School for Your Master's Degree
The biotech master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on biotechnology students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other biotechnology students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized biotechnology related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for biotechnology students working on their master's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Biotechnology Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.