2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Molecular Genetics in the Southwest Region

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Molecular Genetics is the 659th most popular major in the country with 359 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 84 molecular genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 molecular genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Molecular Genetics Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in molecular genetics. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular molecular genetics programs in the United States.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Molecular Genetics Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Molecular Genetics Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s”.

Top 3 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Molecular Genetics in the Southwest Region

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Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, Texas

#7 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - College Station. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Molecular Genetics Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s list. College Station, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s molecular genetics degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Texas A&M University - College Station Molecular Genetics Report

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Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas

#5 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baylor College of Medicine. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Molecular Genetics Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s list. This small school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 16 masters’s molecular genetics degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Molecular Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine

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

#2 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Molecular Genetics Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s list. UTHealth is located in Houston, Texas and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s molecular genetics degrees to qualified students.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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

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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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