2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Southeast 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 Southeast region, there were 178 biological/biosystems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 biological/biosystems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree biological/biosystems engineering students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Biological/Biosystems Engineering in the Southeast Region

1

Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama

Top 10% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Auburn University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. Auburn University is a public institution located in Auburn, Alabama. The school has a large population, and it awarded 6 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

Full Auburn University Biological/Biosystems Engineering Report

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University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#10 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Georgia. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Southeast Region. This large school is located in Athens, Georgia, and it awarded 2 masters’s biological/biosystems engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

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 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%.

Read more about Biological/Biosystems Engineering at University of Georgia

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Biological/Biosystems Engineering

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.