2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Southeast Region” ranking.

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 Southeast region, there were 1,372 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,634 and $19,748 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in biotechnology. That schools that top this list have a program in biotechnology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in the Southeast Region

1

University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville, Alabama

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alabama in Huntsville landed the #1 spot on the list. Huntsville, Alabama is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s biotech degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.7% 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 University of Alabama in Huntsville Biotechnology Report

2

Augusta University
Augusta, Georgia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biotech Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Augusta University landed the #2 spot on the list. Augusta University is a public institution located in Augusta, Georgia. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 0 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Augusta University Biotechnology Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s 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.