2022 Best Value Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 3,585 people earned their degree in biotechnology, making the major the 242nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 246 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 14 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent biotechnology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the biotechnology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree biotech students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Biotechnology (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Central New Mexico Community College

Albuquerque, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$2,604 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central New Mexico Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this large public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified associates’s biotech students in 2019-2020.

CNM did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Biotechnology Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $2,604 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Biotech students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Central New Mexico Community College.

Full Central New Mexico Community College Biotechnology Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Biotechnology (Income $0-$30k)

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Henk Caspers/Naturalis Biodiversity Center.

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