2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Genetics in the Great Lakes Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Genetics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Genetics is the 519th most popular major in the country with 649 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 188 general genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 149 general genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Genetics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in general genetics. That schools that top this list have a program in general genetics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Genetics Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree general genetics students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Genetics in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

#6 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Genetics Major in the Great Lakes Region. University of Wisconsin - Madison is a large public school situated in Madison, Wisconsin. It awarded 121 bachelors’s general genetics degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about General Genetics at UW - Madison

2

Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, Indiana

#8 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Genetics Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in West Lafayette, Indiana, this large public school awarded 28 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s general genetics students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Genetics at Purdue

3

Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, Ohio

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ohio Wesleyan University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Genetics Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Delaware, Ohio, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s general genetics students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full OWU General Genetics Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Genetics

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.

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