by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Biology Major in Kansas” ranking is part of that endeavor.
With 107,165 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, general biology is the 5th most popular major in the United States. In 2019-2020, general biology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $28,334 and had an average of $23,818 in loans still to pay off.
Across Kansas, there were 693 general biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,648 and $22,298 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 42 general biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,354 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biology Major in Kansas” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in general biology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general biology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biology Major in Kansas” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for kansas master’s degree biology students.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biology Major in Kansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Pittsburg State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Pittsburg, Kansas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s biology degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.
Read more about General Biology at Pittsburg State University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Emporia State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biology Major in Kansas list. Emporia State University is a medium-sized public school situated in Emporia, Kansas. It awarded 7 masters’s biology degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Biology at Emporia State University
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biology Major in Kansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Fort Hays State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Fort Hays State University is located in Hays, Kansas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 masters’s biology degrees to qualified students.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biology Major in Kansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Wichita State University landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Wichita, Kansas, this fairly large public school awarded 10 degrees to qualified masters’s biology students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biology Major in Kansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Kansas State University landed the #5 spot on the list. Manhattan, Kansas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s biology degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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