2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Biochemical Engineering

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Biochemical Engineering Schools for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 115 people earned their degree in biochemical engineering, making the major the 332nd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, biochemical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $56,800 and had an average of $22,500 in loans still to pay off.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 biochemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Biochemical Engineering Schools for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biochemical engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great biochemical engineering programs and 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 biochemical engineering program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Biochemical Engineering Schools for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Biochemical Engineering Schools for a Master’s.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Biochemical Engineering

#1

Villanova University

Villanova, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$20,719 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Villanova University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Biochemical Engineering Schools for a Master’s. Villanova University is a fairly large school located in Villanova, Pennsylvania that handed out 5 masters’s biochemical engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Villanova also took the #1 spot in our “Best Biochemical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Villanova University are $20,719, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Biochemical Engineering at Villanova

#2

University of Georgia

Athens, Georgia

#2 in overall quality

$27,476 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Georgia. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Biochemical Engineering Schools for a Master’s. University of Georgia is a large school located in Athens, Georgia that handed out 6 masters’s biochemical engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UGA also made our “Best Biochemical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Georgia are $27,476, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Biochemical Engineering at UGA

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to UC Davis College of Engineering.

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