2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in New Jersey

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Biotechnology is the 242nd most popular major in the country with 3,911 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across New Jersey, there were 63 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,237 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in New Jersey” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in biotechnology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their biotechnology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in New Jersey

The colleges and universities below are the best for new jersey master’s degree biotech students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in New Jersey

1

William Paterson University of New Jersey
Wayne, New Jersey

#22 overall quality in New Jersey

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend William Paterson University of New Jersey. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in New Jersey list. William Paterson University is a medium-sized school located in Wayne, New Jersey that handed out 7 masters’s biotech degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Biotechnology at William Paterson University of New Jersey

2

Kean University
Union, New Jersey

#17 overall quality in New Jersey

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kean University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in New Jersey list. Located in Union, New Jersey, this fairly large public school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified masters’s biotech students in 2020-2021.

Full Kean University Biotechnology Report

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.