by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Microbiology is the 224th most popular major in the country with 2,911 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 256 microbiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 202 microbiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 9 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in microbiology. That schools that top this list have a program in microbiology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree microbiology students.
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, East Tennessee State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Johnson City, Tennessee is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s microbiology degrees to 27 students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Clemson University landed the #2 spot on the list. Clemson University is a large school located in Clemson, South Carolina that handed out 52 bachelors’s microbiology degrees in 2020-2021.
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%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern State University of Louisiana. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in the Southeast Region list. NSU is a fairly large school located in Natchitoches, Louisiana that handed out 9 bachelors’s microbiology degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Northwestern State University of Louisiana Microbiology Report
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, North Carolina State University landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, this large public school awarded 39 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s microbiology students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Microbiology at North Carolina State University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Tech. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Blacksburg, Virginia, this large public school awarded 21 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s microbiology students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
With a ranking of #6, The University of Alabama did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in the Southeast Region list. Tuscaloosa, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s microbiology degrees to 21 students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
University of Georgia landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Located in Athens, Georgia, this large public school awarded 23 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s microbiology students in 2020-2021.
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 undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is a public institution located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The school has a large population, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Methodist University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #9. Methodist is a private not-for-profit institution located in Fayetteville, North Carolina. 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.
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