2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 3,911 people earned their degree in biotechnology, making the major the 174th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, biotechnology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $52,907 and had an average of $20,555 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 247 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,691 and $20,250 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 21 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biotechnology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in biotechnology.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in the Southwest Region

1

Tulsa Community College
Tulsa, Oklahoma

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tulsa Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Southwest Region list. Tulsa Community College is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 associates’s biotech degrees to qualified students.

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2

Central New Mexico Community College
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Top 10% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central New Mexico Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Southwest Region list. CNM is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 8 associates’s biotech degrees to qualified students.

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3

St Philip's College
San Antonio, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend St Philip’s College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Southwest Region list. This fairly large school is located in San Antonio, Texas, and it awarded 0 associates’s biotech degrees in 2020-2021.

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3

Oklahoma City Community College
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma City Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. Oklahoma City Community College is a public institution located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Biotechnology

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.