2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Population Biology in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Population Biology Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Population Biology is the 1235th most popular major in the country with 10 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 3 population biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 population biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great population biology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the population 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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Best Value Population Biology Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Population Biology Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Population Biology in the Southwest Region

#1

Texas State University

San Marcos, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$17,040 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Population Biology Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in San Marcos, Texas, and it awarded 3 masters’s population biology degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region master’s degree population biology students list, Texas State has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Population Biology Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Texas State University are $17,040, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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.

Credits

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