2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Genetics in Ohio

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Genetics Major in Ohio” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 1,543 people earned their degree in genetics, making the major the 206th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, genetics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,723 and had an average of $22,299 in loans still to pay off.

Across Ohio, there were 83 genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,648 and $20,500 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 56 genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,341 and $26,852 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Genetics Major in Ohio” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in genetics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their genetics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Genetics Major in Ohio

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Genetics Major in Ohio”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Genetics in Ohio

1

Ohio State University - Main Campus
Columbus, Ohio

#2 overall quality in Ohio

$21,648 Average Early-Career Earnings

$20,500 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Genetics Major in Ohio list. This large school is located in Columbus, Ohio, and it awarded 56 bachelors’s genetics degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.

Read full report on Genetics at Ohio State

2

Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio Wesleyan University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Genetics Major in Ohio list. Ohio Wesleyan University is a small school located in Delaware, Ohio that handed out 0 bachelors’s genetics degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full OWU Genetics Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Genetics in the Great Lakes Region
• Most Focused 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

• *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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