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2023 Most Well Attended Genetics Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s

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291 Degrees Awarded
$32,211 Avg Salary
Most Well Attended Genetics Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor's

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Genetics Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s” 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 the Great Lakes region, there were 478 genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,211 and $21,995 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 291 genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Genetics Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in genetics. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in genetics.

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Most Well Attended Genetics Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Genetics Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s”.

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Out of the 5 schools in the Most Well Attended Genetics Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Madison landed the #1 spot on the list. Madison, Wisconsin is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s genetics degrees to 121 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UW - Madison Genetics Report

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Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

Out of the 5 schools in the Most Well Attended Genetics Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Michigan State University is a public institution located in East Lansing, Michigan. The school has a large population, and it awarded 77 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Genetics at Michigan State

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Genetics Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Columbus, Ohio, this large public school awarded 56 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s genetics students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Genetics at Ohio State University - Main Campus

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Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, Indiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Purdue University - Main Campus. The school came in at #4 for the Most Well Attended Genetics Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s. Purdue University - Main Campus is a large school located in West Lafayette, Indiana that handed out 37 bachelors’s genetics degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio Wesleyan University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Genetics Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s list. OWU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Delaware, Ohio. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. 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%.

Read full report on Genetics at Ohio Wesleyan University

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