2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Evolutionary Biology Major in the Plains States Region

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In 2020-2021, 697 people earned their degree in evolutionary biology, making the major the 501st most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 29 evolutionary biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 evolutionary biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Evolutionary Biology Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in evolutionary biology. That schools that top this list have a program in evolutionary biology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Evolutionary Biology Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Evolutionary Biology Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Evolutionary Biology in the Plains States Region

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Minnesota State University - Moorhead
Moorhead, Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Minnesota State University - Moorhead. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Evolutionary Biology Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Moorhead, Minnesota, this medium-sized public school awarded 6 degrees to qualified bachelors’s evolutionary biology students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.0% 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 Minnesota State University - Moorhead

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University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Top 15% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kansas. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Evolutionary Biology Major in the Plains States Region. KU is a large school located in Lawrence, Kansas that handed out 1 bachelors’s evolutionary biology degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Evolutionary Biology at University of Kansas

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Evolutionary Biology

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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