2022 Best Value Biology Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Biology Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2019-2020, 777 people earned their degree in biology education, making the major the 522nd most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 90 biology education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 biology education graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Biology Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biology education. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality biology education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the biology education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Best Value Biology Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Biology Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region.
Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biology Education in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Arizona University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Biology Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Northern Arizona University is a large public school situated in Flagstaff, Arizona. It awarded 8 bachelors’s biology teacher education degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at NAU, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Biology Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Northern Arizona University is $12,915 for southwest region bachelor’s degree biology teacher education students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Mary Hardin - Baylor. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Biology Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. UMHB is located in Belton, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s biology teacher education degrees to qualified students.
UMHB did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Biology Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend UMHB is $27,099 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Biology Teacher Education students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Wesleyan University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Biology Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. Texas Wesleyan University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Fort Worth, Texas. It awarded 3 bachelors’s biology teacher education degrees in 2019-2020.
Texas Wesleyan not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Biology Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Texas Wesleyan University is $23,473 for southwest region bachelor’s degree biology teacher education students.
Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Biology Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Our Lady of the Lake University landed the #4 spot on the list. San Antonio, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s biology teacher education degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.
OLLU also made our “Best Biology Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #5. The yearly cost to attend Our Lady of the Lake University is $17,537 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Biology Teacher Education students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Baylor University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Biology Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. Located in Waco, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s biology teacher education students in 2019-2020.
Baylor did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Biology Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Baylor University is $36,039 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Biology Teacher Education students.
The student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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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