2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Genetics Major in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Genetics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2021-2022, 735 people earned their degree in general genetics, making the major the 519th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 78 general genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 general genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Genetics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general genetics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general genetics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Genetics Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree general genetics students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Genetics in the Southwest Region

1

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Genetics Major in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it awarded 3 masters’s general genetics degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Genetics at University of Arizona

2

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, Texas

#2 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Genetics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston landed the #2 spot on the list. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is located in Houston, Texas and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 3 masters’s general genetics degrees to qualified students.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about General Genetics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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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