2023 Most Popular Colleges for Biochemical Engineering in the Southeast Region

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Biochemical Engineering is the 338th most popular major in the country with 109 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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.

Across the Southeast region, there were 26 biochemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $26,000 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Biochemical Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biochemical engineering. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in biochemical engineering.

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Most Well Attended Biochemical Engineering Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region biochemical engineering students.

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

1

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#10 overall quality in Southeast

$46,768 Average Early-Career Earnings

$22,019 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Biochemical Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Georgia landed the #1 spot on the list. UGA is located in Athens, Georgia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 22 ’s biochemical engineering degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Georgia Biochemical Engineering Report

2

Christian Brothers University
Memphis, Tennessee

$53,446 Average Early-Career Earnings

$31,694 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Christian Brothers University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Biochemical Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. This small school is located in Memphis, Tennessee, and it awarded 4 ’s biochemical engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Biochemical Engineering at Christian Brothers

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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.