2022 Best Value Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Plains States region, there were 84 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,069 and $19,434 respectively.

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

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the biotechnology program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Plains States Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region.

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

#1

Northern State University

Aberdeen, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$15,851 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region list. Aberdeen, South Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s biotech degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

NSU also made our “Best Biotechnology Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $15,851 for plains states region associate degree biotech students per year to attend NSU.

Read full report on Biotechnology at NSU

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Biotechnology

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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