2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Population Biology Major

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Population Biology Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Population Biology is the 1371st most popular major in the country with 15 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 population biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Population Biology Major” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in population biology. That schools that top this list have a program in population biology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Population Biology Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree population biology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Population Biology

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Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

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 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Population Biology Major. San Marcos, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s population biology degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Population Biology at Texas State University

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University of California - Davis
Davis, California

Top 10% overall quality in United States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Population Biology Major that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Davis landed the #2 spot on the list. UC Davis is located in Davis, California and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s population biology degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Population Biology at University of California - Davis

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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Ernst Haeckel.