2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Genetics in the Southeast Region

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 137 general genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 105 general genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended General Genetics Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in general genetics. To top this list, a school must have a successful general genetics program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended General Genetics Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s

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

Top 3 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Genetics in the Southeast Region

1

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#10 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended General Genetics Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s list. University of Georgia is a large school located in Athens, Georgia that handed out 47 bachelors’s general genetics degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Genetics at UGA

2

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina

#14 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended General Genetics Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, North Carolina State University landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and it awarded 43 bachelors’s general genetics degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Genetics at North Carolina State University

3

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alabama at Birmingham. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended General Genetics Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s list. University of Alabama at Birmingham is a large school located in Birmingham, Alabama that handed out 15 bachelors’s general genetics degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of Alabama at Birmingham General Genetics Report

• Most Popular 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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