2022 Best Value Biology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Biology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Biology is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 5th of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 102,043 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, general biology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $28,233 and had an average of $23,964 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 27,088 general biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,313 and $24,646 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 282 general biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Biology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general biology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general biology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general biology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Biology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree biology students.

Top 3 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Biology in the Southeast Region

#1

Copiah-Lincoln Community College

Wesson, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$3,714 Average Net Price

$21,781 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Copiah-Lincoln Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Biology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. Wesson, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s biology degrees to 79 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region associate degree biology students list, Copiah-Lincoln Community College has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best General Biology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $3,714 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Biology students per year to attend Copiah-Lincoln Community College.

Full Copiah-Lincoln Community College General Biology Report

#2

Georgia Military College

Milledgeville, Georgia

#2 in overall quality

$9,792 Average Net Price

$19,045 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia Military College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Biology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. Georgia Military College is a medium-sized school located in Milledgeville, Georgia that handed out 62 associates’s biology degrees in 2019-2020.

Georgia Military College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best General Biology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Georgia Military College is $9,792 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Biology students.

Read more about General Biology at Georgia Military College

#3

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

Perkinston, Mississippi

#3 in overall quality

$8,503 Average Net Price

$18,463 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Biology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Perkinston, Mississippi, this medium-sized public school awarded 23 degrees to qualified associates’s biology students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best General Biology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is $8,503 for southeast region associate degree biology students.

Read more about General Biology at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General 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

• *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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