2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in Minnesota

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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 Minnesota, there were 5 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,071 and $28,140 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in Minnesota” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in Minnesota

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in Minnesota”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in Minnesota

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Minnesota State University - Mankato
Mankato, Minnesota

#17 overall quality in Minnesota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Minnesota State University - Mankato. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in Minnesota. Minnesota State Mankato is a public institution located in Mankato, Minnesota. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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 Minnesota State University - Mankato

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Saint Cloud State University
Saint Cloud, Minnesota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in Minnesota that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Cloud State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, this fairly large public school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s biotech students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full St. Cloud State University Biotechnology Report

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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

• *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.