2023 Most Well Attended Biomedical Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate

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 “Most Well Attended Biomedical Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 1,084 people earned their degree in biomedical technology, making the major the 546th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 193 biomedical technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 116 biomedical technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Biomedical Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in biomedical technology. To top this list, a school must have a successful biomedical technology program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Biomedical Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Biomedical Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate”.

Top 5 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Biomedical Technology in the Southwest Region

1

Texas State Technical College
Waco, Texas

Top 5% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 5 schools in the Most Well Attended Biomedical Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State Technical College landed the #1 spot on the list. TSTC is located in Waco, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 82 associates’s biomedical engineering tech degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Biomedical Technology at TSTC

2

San Jacinto Community College
Pasadena, Texas

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 5 schools in the Most Well Attended Biomedical Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, San Jacinto Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. San Jacinto College is a large school located in Pasadena, Texas that handed out 25 associates’s biomedical engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Biomedical Technology at San Jacinto Community College

3

St Philip's College
San Antonio, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend St Philip’s College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Biomedical Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate list. St Philip’s College is a public institution located in San Antonio, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 9 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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4

Collin County Community College District
McKinney, Texas

Top 10% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Collin County Community College District. The school came in at #4 for the Most Well Attended Biomedical Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate. This large school is located in McKinney, Texas, and it awarded 0 associates’s biomedical engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Biomedical Technology at Collin County Community College District

4

New Mexico State University - Alamogordo
Alamogordo, New Mexico

Out of the 5 schools in the Most Well Attended Biomedical Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Alamogordo landed the #4 spot on the list. Alamogordo, New Mexico is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s biomedical engineering tech degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Biomedical Technology at New Mexico State University - Alamogordo

• Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Biomedical Technology

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.