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2022 Best Value Entomology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region

4 Ranked Colleges
22 Degrees Awarded
$17,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Entomology Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Entomology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Entomology is the 654th most popular major in the country with 415 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 64 entomology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 entomology graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Entomology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in entomology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent entomology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the entomology program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Entomology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree entomology students.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Entomology in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Purdue University - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Entomology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region. Purdue is a large school located in West Lafayette, Indiana that handed out 7 bachelors’s entomology degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Purdue, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Entomology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Purdue University - Main Campus is $13,986 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree entomology students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Entomology at Purdue

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Entomology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Madison landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Madison, Wisconsin, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s entomology degrees in 2019-2020.

UW - Madison did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Entomology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for UW - Madison is $17,708 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Entomology students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. The student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UW - Madison Entomology Report

#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Entomology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Columbus, Ohio is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s entomology degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Ohio State, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Entomology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $17,616 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Entomology students per year to attend Ohio State.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The low student loan default rate of 4.4% 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 Entomology at Ohio State

#4

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Entomology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan State University landed the #4 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 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Michigan State also took the #3 spot in our “Best Entomology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Michigan State University is $19,173 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Entomology students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The 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 Entomology at Michigan State

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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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