2024 Best General Genetics Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
3Colleges in the Southeast Region
105Bachelor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in general genetics, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #387 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for general genetics students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 105 bachelor's degrees in general genetics during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great General Genetics School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The general genetics bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality general genetics program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general genetics students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general genetics students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general genetics related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general genetics students working on their bachelor's degree.
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 Best General Genetics Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study General Genetics in the Southeast Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in general genetics.
Top Southeast Region Schools for a Bachelor's in General Genetics
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).