by our College Data Analytics Team
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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biochemical Engineering Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 109 people earned their degree in biochemical engineering, making the major the 338th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, biochemical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $48,106 and had an average of $25,144 in loans still to pay off.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 88 biochemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biochemical Engineering Major” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biochemical engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in biochemical engineering.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biochemical Engineering Major” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree biochemical engineering students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Christian Brothers University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biochemical Engineering Major list. Christian Brothers University is a small school located in Memphis, Tennessee that handed out 4 bachelors’s biochemical engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Biochemical Engineering at Christian Brothers
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado Boulder. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biochemical Engineering Major list. Located in Boulder, Colorado, this large public school awarded 64 degrees to qualified bachelors’s biochemical engineering students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
Full University of Colorado Boulder Biochemical Engineering Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Georgia. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biochemical Engineering Major. This large school is located in Athens, Georgia, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s biochemical engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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