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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Biotech Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Biotech Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Biotech Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate”.

Top 2 Most Popular 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 Most Well Attended Biotech Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alabama in Huntsville landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Alabama in Huntsville is a medium-sized public school situated in Huntsville, Alabama. It awarded 1 doctorate’s biotech degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Biotechnology at University of Alabama in Huntsville

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Augusta University
Augusta, Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Augusta University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Biotech Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate. Augusta, Georgia is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s biotech degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Biotechnology at Augusta 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

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.