2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Microbiology in the Southeast Region
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Microbiology is the 223rd most popular major in the country with 2,913 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.
Across the Southeast region, there were 308 microbiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 248 microbiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 9 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in microbiology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great microbiology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the microbiology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region.
Top 9 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Microbiology in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Carolina State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. North Carolina State University is a large school located in Raleigh, North Carolina that handed out 48 bachelors’s microbiology degrees in 2019-2020.
NC State also made our “Best Microbiology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for North Carolina State University is $16,458 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Microbiology students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 2.9% 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%.
Out of the 9 schools in the Best Value Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #2 spot on the list. Virginia Tech is a public institution located in Blacksburg, Virginia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 31 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
Virginia Tech also took the #2 spot in our “Best Microbiology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Virginia Tech is $21,198 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Microbiology students.
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 student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern State University of Louisiana. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Northwestern State University of Louisiana is a fairly large school located in Natchitoches, Louisiana that handed out 2 bachelors’s microbiology degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree microbiology students list, NSU has also earned the #8 rank in our “Best Microbiology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for NSU is $12,866 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Microbiology students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend East Tennessee State University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. This fairly large school is located in Johnson City, Tennessee, and it awarded 38 bachelors’s microbiology degrees in 2019-2020.
ETSU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #7 on our “Best Microbiology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend East Tennessee State University is $14,332 for southeast region bachelor’s degree microbiology students.
Out of the 9 schools in the Best Value Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Georgia landed the #5 spot on the list. Athens, Georgia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s microbiology degrees to 35 students in 2019-2020.
UGA also made our “Best Microbiology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #4. The yearly cost to attend UGA is $13,649 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Microbiology students.
The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
With a ranking of #6, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this large public school handed out 16 degrees to qualified bachelors’s microbiology students in 2019-2020.
Louisiana State University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #6 on our “Best Microbiology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $15,465 for southeast region bachelor’s degree microbiology students per year to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.
The University of Alabama landed the #7 spot on the 2022 Best Value Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. UA is a large school located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama that handed out 20 bachelors’s microbiology degrees in 2019-2020.
UA also made our “Best Microbiology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #5. It costs about $22,597 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Microbiology students per year to attend The University of Alabama.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Clemson University ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Clemson, South Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s microbiology degrees to 57 students in 2019-2020.
Clemson also took the #3 spot in our “Best Microbiology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Clemson University is $20,008 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Microbiology students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Methodist University came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. Fayetteville, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s microbiology degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.
Methodist not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #9 on our “Best Microbiology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Methodist University is $32,906 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Microbiology students.
The impressive 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.
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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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