2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Biological & Biomedical Sciences in North Dakota

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological & Biomedical Sciences Major in North Dakota” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Biological & Biomedical Sciences is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 9th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 177,778 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, biological and biomedical sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,469 and had an average of $23,170 in loans still to pay off.

Across North Dakota, there were 397 biological and biomedical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,418 and $25,221 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 33 biological and biomedical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,776 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological & Biomedical Sciences Major in North Dakota” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in biological and biomedical sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in biological and biomedical sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological & Biomedical Sciences Major in North Dakota

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological & Biomedical Sciences Major in North Dakota”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Biological & Biomedical Sciences in North Dakota

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University of Mary
Bismarck, North Dakota

#3 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Mary. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological & Biomedical Sciences Major in North Dakota list. Located in Bismarck, North Dakota, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 11 diplomas to qualified masters’s biological and biomedical sciences students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Mary Biological & Biomedical Sciences Report

2

North Dakota State University - Main Campus
Fargo, North Dakota

#1 overall quality in North Dakota

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological & Biomedical Sciences Major in North Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, North Dakota State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Fargo, North Dakota, this fairly large public school handed out 17 diplomas to qualified masters’s biological and biomedical sciences students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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%.

Read more about Biological & Biomedical Sciences at North Dakota State University

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University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

#2 overall quality in North Dakota

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological & Biomedical Sciences Major in North Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Dakota landed the #3 spot on the list. Grand Forks, North Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s biological and biomedical sciences degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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%.

Full University of North Dakota Biological & Biomedical Sciences Report

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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

• *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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Kelly White.