2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Evolutionary Biology (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Evolutionary Biology is the 502nd most popular major in the country with 699 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 18 evolutionary biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 evolutionary biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in evolutionary biology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality evolutionary biology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the evolutionary biology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree evolutionary biology students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Evolutionary Biology (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$3,156 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Nashville, Tennessee is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s evolutionary biology degrees to 15 students in 2019-2020.

Vanderbilt also took the #1 spot in our “Best Evolutionary Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Vanderbilt is $3,156 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Evolutionary Biology students whose families make $0-$30k.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The low student loan default rate of 1.0% 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%.

Read full report on Evolutionary Biology at Vanderbilt University

#2

Methodist University

Fayetteville, North Carolina

#2 in overall quality

$31,953 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Methodist University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Methodist is a private not-for-profit institution located in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Methodist did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Evolutionary Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $31,953 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Evolutionary Biology students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Methodist University.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Evolutionary Biology at Methodist

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Evolutionary Biology (Income $0-$30k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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