2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in Rhode Island

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Biotechnology is the 171st most popular major in the country with 3,585 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Rhode Island, there were 29 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $39,955 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent biotechnology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the biotechnology program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Rhode Island” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island

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

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

#1

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$20,607 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Kingston, Rhode Island, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s biotech degrees in 2019-2020.

URI also took the #1 spot in our “Best Biotechnology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” ranking. The yearly cost to attend URI is $20,607 for Rhode Island Bachelor’s Degree Biotech students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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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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