2023 Schools Highly Focused on Biochemical Engineering Major in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Biochemical Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 142 people earned their degree in biochemical engineering, making the major the 962nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 34 biochemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Biochemical Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in biochemical engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their biochemical engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools Highly Focused on Biochemical Engineering Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Biochemical Engineering Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Biochemical Engineering in the Southeast Region

1

Christian Brothers University
Memphis, Tennessee

$53,446 Average Early-Career Earnings

$30,054 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Biochemical Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Christian Brothers University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Memphis, Tennessee, and it awarded 1 ’s biochemical engineering degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Christian Brothers Biochemical Engineering Report

2

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#10 overall quality in Southeast

$46,768 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,683 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Biochemical Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Athens, Georgia, and it awarded 33 ’s biochemical engineering degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Biochemical Engineering at University of Georgia

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 UC Davis College of Engineering.