2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biology Education in the Great Lakes Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biology Teacher Education Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Biology Education is the 467th most popular major in the country with 865 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 141 biology education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 biology education graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,305 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biology Teacher Education Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in biology education. That schools that top this list have a program in biology education 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Biology Teacher Education Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biology Teacher Education Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biology Education in the Great Lakes Region

1

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biology Teacher Education Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Michigan University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, this fairly large public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified doctorate’s biology teacher education students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Biology Education at Western Michigan University

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Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ball State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biology Teacher Education Major in the Great Lakes Region. Muncie, Indiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s biology teacher education degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% 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 full report on Biology Education at Ball State University

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biology Education

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 Aparajita Datta.