2023 Most Focused Colleges for Biological/Biosystems Engineering in the Great Lakes Region

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Biological/Biosystems Engineering is the 639th most popular major in the country with 410 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 17 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 Great Lakes 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 Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region biological/biosystems engineering students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Biological/Biosystems Engineering in the Great Lakes Region

1

Oakland University
Rochester Hills, Michigan

$50,418 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,722 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oakland University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region. Oakland University is a fairly large public school situated in Rochester Hills, Michigan. It awarded 17 ’s biological/biosystems engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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2

University of Akron Main Campus
Akron, Ohio

$43,222 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,131 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Akron Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Akron Main Campus is a fairly large public school situated in Akron, Ohio. It awarded 0 ’s biological/biosystems engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Biological/Biosystems Engineering at University of Akron Main Campus

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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 Jun Seita.