2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Plains States Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Plains States Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Biotechnology is the 174th most popular major in the country with 3,911 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Plains States region, there were 78 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 64 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 9 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.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 9 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in the Plains States Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Plains States Region list. Rapid City, South Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s biotech degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full SD Mines Biotechnology Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Grand View University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Plains States Region. Grand View University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Des Moines, Iowa. It awarded 4 bachelors’s biotech degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Biotechnology at Grand View University
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska at Omaha landed the #3 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Omaha, Nebraska, and it awarded 22 bachelors’s biotech degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full UNOMAHA Biotechnology Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Brookings, South Dakota, this fairly large public school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s biotech students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full South Dakota State University Biotechnology Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Dakota State University - Main Campus. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Plains States Region list. North Dakota State University - Main Campus is located in Fargo, North Dakota and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 bachelors’s biotech degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Biotechnology at North Dakota State University - Main Campus
With a ranking of #6, Minnesota State University - Mankato did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Plains States Region list. Minnesota State Mankato is a fairly large school located in Mankato, Minnesota that handed out 5 bachelors’s biotech degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Biotechnology at Minnesota State Mankato
University of Kansas came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Plains States Region ranking. KU is a public institution located in Lawrence, Kansas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full University of Kansas Biotechnology Report
Missouri Baptist University ranked #8 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Plains States Region list. This small school is located in Saint Louis, Missouri, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s biotech degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Biotechnology at Missouri Baptist University
Saint Cloud State University landed the #8 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Plains States Region ranking. Located in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, this fairly large public school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s biotech students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Biotechnology at Saint Cloud State University
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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
- *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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