2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Genetics in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Genetics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 the Southwest region, there were 107 genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $21,990 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 73 genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Genetics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in genetics. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent genetics programs, but they also 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 the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Genetics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Genetics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Genetics in the Southwest Region

#1

New Mexico State University - Main Campus

Las Cruces, New Mexico

#2 in overall quality

$8,659 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Genetics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, this fairly large public school awarded 8 degrees to qualified bachelors’s genetics students in 2019-2020.

NMSU Main Campus did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Genetics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $8,659 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Genetics students per year to attend NMSU Main Campus.

Read full report on Genetics at NMSU Main Campus

#2

Texas A&M University - College Station

College Station, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$19,057 Average Net Price

$29,685 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Genetics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #2 spot on the list. Texas A&M College Station is a large public school situated in College Station, Texas. It awarded 65 bachelors’s genetics degrees in 2019-2020.

Texas A&M College Station did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Genetics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Texas A&M University - College Station is $19,057 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Genetics students.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Genetics at Texas A&M College Station

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for 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

• *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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