2023 Most Focused Colleges for Biological/Biosystems Engineering in the Far Western US Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Biological/Biosystems Engineering is the 639th most popular major in the country with 472 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 55 biological/biosystems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in biological/biosystems engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their biological/biosystems engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools Highly Focused on Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region biological/biosystems engineering students.
Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Biological/Biosystems Engineering in the Far Western US Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - San Diego. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region list. This large school is located in La Jolla, California, and it awarded 20 ’s biological/biosystems engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national 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.
Read more about Biological/Biosystems Engineering at University of California - San Diego
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Merced landed the #2 spot on the list. UC Merced is a medium-sized school located in Merced, California that handed out 3 ’s biological/biosystems engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
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%.
Full UC Merced Biological/Biosystems Engineering Report
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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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