2022 Best Value Genetics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Wisconsin

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 “Best Value Genetics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Wisconsin” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Genetics is the 218th most popular major in the country with 1,403 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, genetics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $31,167 and had an average of $22,619 in loans still to pay off.

Across Wisconsin, there were 110 genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,100 and $20,500 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 84 genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

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

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

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Genetics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Wisconsin” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Genetics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Wisconsin

The colleges and universities below are the best for wisconsin bachelor’s degree genetics students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Genetics in Wisconsin

#1

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Madison, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$17,708 Average Net Price

$34,704 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Genetics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Wisconsin list. Madison, Wisconsin is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s genetics degrees to 84 students in 2019-2020.

UW - Madison did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Genetics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin” list. It costs about $17,708 for Wisconsin Bachelor’s Degree Genetics students per year to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison.

The student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Genetics at University of Wisconsin - Madison

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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

• *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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