2023 Schools Highly Focused on Biotech Major in Rhode Island
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Biotech Major in Rhode Island” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Biotechnology is the 242nd most popular major in the country with 4,245 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Rhode Island, there were 64 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Biotech Major in Rhode Island” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.
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Schools Highly Focused on Biotech Major in Rhode Island
The colleges and universities below are the best for rhode island biotech students.
Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Biotechnology in Rhode Island
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Biotech Major in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, Brown University landed the #1 spot on the list. Providence, Rhode Island is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s biotech degrees to 41 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 98%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Biotech Major in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Kingston, Rhode Island, this fairly large public school awarded 18 degrees to qualified ’s biotech students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Biotechnology at URI
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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%.
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- *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.
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