2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Molecular Medicine in the Southeast Region

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Molecular Medicine is the 344th most popular major in the country with 83 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, molecular medicine graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 29 molecular medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 molecular medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Molecular Medicine Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in molecular medicine. That schools that top this list have a program in molecular medicine in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Molecular Medicine Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree molecular medicine students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Molecular Medicine in the Southeast Region

1

Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

#11 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wake Forest University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Molecular Medicine Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s molecular medicine students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Molecular Medicine at Wake Forest University

2

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#10 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Molecular Medicine Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Georgia landed the #2 spot on the list. Athens, Georgia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s molecular medicine degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.

Full University of Georgia Molecular Medicine Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Molecular Medicine

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.