2022 Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Kentucky

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Kentucky” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across Kentucky, there were 38 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 38 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,401 and $24,684 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great biotechnology programs and 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Kentucky” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Kentucky

The colleges and universities below are the best for kentucky bachelor’s degree biotech students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in Kentucky

#1

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

#1 in overall quality

$17,127 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Kentucky landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Kentucky is located in Lexington, Kentucky and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 38 bachelors’s biotech degrees to qualified students.

UK did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Biotechnology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Kentucky is $17,127 for Kentucky Bachelor’s Degree Biotech students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Biotechnology at UK

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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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