2022 Best Value Plant Genetics Schools for a Bachelor’s

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Plant Genetics Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 21 people earned their degree in plant genetics, making the major the 1168th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 plant genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great plant genetics programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the plant genetics program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Plant Genetics Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Plant Genetics Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Plant Genetics

#1

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana

#1 in overall quality

$13,986 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Plant Genetics Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Purdue University - Main Campus is a large school located in West Lafayette, Indiana that handed out 7 bachelors’s plant genetics degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Purdue, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Plant Genetics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $13,986 for bachelor’s degree plant genetics students per year to attend Purdue University - Main Campus.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Purdue University - Main Campus Plant Genetics Report

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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