by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Evolutionary Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 697 people earned their degree in evolutionary biology, making the major the 501st most popular in the United States.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 129 evolutionary biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 evolutionary biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Evolutionary Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Evolutionary Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Michigan University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Evolutionary Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Ypsilanti, Michigan is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s evolutionary biology degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Evolutionary Biology at Eastern Michigan
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Evolutionary Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region. U-M is a large public school situated in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It awarded 8 masters’s evolutionary biology degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Evolutionary Biology Report
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Evolutionary Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #3 spot on the list. Champaign, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s evolutionary biology degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Evolutionary Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Kent State University at Kent landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Kent, Ohio, this large public school awarded 2 degrees to qualified masters’s evolutionary biology students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Evolutionary Biology at Kent State University at Kent
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Bloomington. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Evolutionary Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Indiana University - Bloomington is a public institution located in Bloomington, Indiana. The school has a large population, and it awarded 6 masters’s 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Evolutionary Biology at Indiana University - Bloomington
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