2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Southeast 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Genome Sciences/Genomics is the 1004th most popular major in the country with 137 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 13 genome sciences/genomics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 genome sciences/genomics graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in genome sciences/genomics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in genome sciences/genomics.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Genome Sciences/Genomics in the Southeast Region

1

Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

#1 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Duke University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Southeast Region. Duke University is located in Durham, North Carolina and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s genome sciences/genomics degrees to qualified students.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Genome Sciences/Genomics at Duke University

2

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina

#14 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Carolina State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Southeast Region list. Raleigh, North Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s genome sciences/genomics degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Genome Sciences/Genomics at NC State

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Genome Sciences/Genomics

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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