2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Southwest 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 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.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality biotechnology programs that also have a lower cost than 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 an Associate in the Southwest Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree biotech students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in the Southwest Region

#1

Central New Mexico Community College

Albuquerque, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$3,429 Average Net Price

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

As a testament to the quality of education offered at CNM, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Biotechnology Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $3,429 for southwest region associate degree biotech students per year to attend CNM.

Read more about Biotechnology at Central New Mexico 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.

Credits

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

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