2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 a Doctorate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Biotechnology is the 242nd most popular major in the country with 3,585 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,027 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,978 and $116,300 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Biotech Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Biotech Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree biotech students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

University of Alabama in Huntsville

Huntsville, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$25,386 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alabama in Huntsville. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Biotech Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid. University of Alabama in Huntsville is a medium-sized school located in Huntsville, Alabama that handed out 4 doctorate’s biotech degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UAH, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Biotechnology Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UAH are $25,386, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biotechnology (With Aid)

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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