2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Human/Medical Genetics Major in the Far Western US Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Human/Medical Genetics Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 272 people earned their degree in human/medical genetics, making the major the 751st most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 32 human/medical genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 human/medical genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,423 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Human/Medical Genetics Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in human/medical genetics. That schools that top this list have a program in human/medical genetics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Human/Medical Genetics Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region doctor’s degree human/medical genetics students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Human/Medical Genetics in the Far Western US Region

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Stanford University
Stanford, California

#1 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stanford University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Human/Medical Genetics Major in the Far Western US Region list. Stanford is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Stanford, California. It awarded 14 doctorate’s human/medical genetics degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Human/Medical Genetics at Stanford University

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University of California - Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

#8 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Los Angeles. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Human/Medical Genetics Major in the Far Western US Region list. This large school is located in Los Angeles, California, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s human/medical genetics degrees in 2020-2021.

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%. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Human/Medical Genetics at University of California - Los Angeles

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Human/Medical 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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