2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Southeast Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Biological/Biosystems Engineering is the 639th most popular major in the country with 472 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 168 biological/biosystems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 156 biological/biosystems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biological/biosystems engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in biological/biosystems engineering.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biological/Biosystems Engineering in the Southeast Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Auburn University landed the #1 spot on the list. Auburn University is a large public school situated in Auburn, Alabama. It awarded 40 bachelors’s biological/biosystems engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Auburn Biological/Biosystems Engineering Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arkansas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Fayetteville, Arkansas, this large public school awarded 40 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s biological/biosystems engineering students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Biological/Biosystems Engineering at University of Arkansas
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. University of Georgia is a public institution located in Athens, Georgia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 59 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full University of Georgia Biological/Biosystems Engineering Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Florida. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Southeast Region. UF is located in Gainesville, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 17 bachelors’s biological/biosystems engineering degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Biological/Biosystems Engineering at University of Florida
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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
- *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.
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