2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in the Far Western US Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

Across the Far Western US region, there were 339 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,689 and $18,419 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in the Far Western US Region

#1

Portland Community College

Portland, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$8,914 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Portland Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Portland Community College is a large school located in Portland, Oregon that handed out 11 associates’s biotech degrees in 2019-2020.

Portland Community College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Biotechnology Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. It costs about $8,914 for Far Western US Region Associate Degree Biotech students per year to attend Portland Community College.

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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.

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

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