2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in Texas

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 Texas” 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 Texas, there were 170 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 81 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in biotechnology. 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in Texas

#1

University of Houston

Houston, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$12,838 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s biotech degrees to 74 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UH, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Biotechnology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Houston is $12,838 for texas bachelor’s degree biotech students.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read more about Biotechnology at University of Houston

#2

University of Houston - Downtown

Houston, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$6,848 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston - Downtown landed the #2 spot on the list. UH Downtown is a fairly large school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 7 bachelors’s biotech degrees in 2019-2020.

UH Downtown did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Biotechnology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list. The yearly cost to attend University of Houston - Downtown is $6,848 for texas bachelor’s degree biotech students.

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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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