2023 Most Well Attended Biotech Major in Indiana for a Bachelor’s

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Biotech Major in Indiana for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Indiana, there were 70 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,815 and $15,250 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,857 and $26,625 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Biotech Major in Indiana for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biotechnology. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in biotechnology.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Biotech Major in Indiana for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for indiana bachelor’s degree biotech students.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in Indiana

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Indiana University - Bloomington
Bloomington, Indiana

#3 overall quality in Indiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Bloomington. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Biotech Major in Indiana for a Bachelor’s list. This large school is located in Bloomington, Indiana, and it awarded 18 bachelors’s biotech degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.

Full IU Bloomington Biotechnology Report

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Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana

#8 overall quality in Indiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Biotech Major in Indiana for a Bachelor’s. Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis is a large school located in Indianapolis, Indiana that handed out 4 bachelors’s biotech degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Biotechnology at Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis

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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

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