2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Evolutionary Biology in the Great Lakes Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 166 people earned their degree in evolutionary biology, making the major the 816th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 14 evolutionary biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 evolutionary biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent evolutionary biology programs, but they also cost less that 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree evolutionary biology students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Evolutionary Biology in the Great Lakes Region

#1

University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$61,548 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Chicago landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Chicago is a fairly large school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 8 masters’s evolutionary biology degrees in 2019-2020.

UChicago also made our “Best Evolutionary Biology Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Chicago are $61,548.

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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

• *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.

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