2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 3,585 people earned their degree in biotechnology, making the major the 171st most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, biotechnology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $50,092 and had an average of $32,815 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,027 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $22,808 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 34 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

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. 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 an Associate in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree biotech students.

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

#1

Miami Dade College

Miami, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$4,842 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Miami Dade College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. Located in Miami, Florida, this large public school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified associates’s biotech students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at MDC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Biotechnology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Miami Dade College is $4,842 for Southeast Region Associate 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Henk Caspers/Naturalis Biodiversity Center.

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