2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biological/Biosystems Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 410 people earned their degree in biological/biosystems engineering, making the major the 639th most popular in the United States.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 60 biological/biosystems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 43 biological/biosystems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,089 and $26,296 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biological/biosystems engineering. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in biological/biosystems engineering.

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Most Well Attended Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 3 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biological/Biosystems Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

Utah State University
Logan, Utah

#13 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Utah State University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Bachelor’s. USU is located in Logan, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 27 bachelors’s biological/biosystems engineering degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Biological/Biosystems Engineering at Utah State University

2

University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho

#21 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Idaho. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Bachelor’s list. U of I is located in Moscow, Idaho and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 16 bachelors’s biological/biosystems engineering degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% 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%.

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Colorado School of Mines
Golden, Colorado

#1 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado School of Mines. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Biological/Biosystems Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Golden, Colorado, this medium-sized public school awarded 6 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s biological/biosystems engineering students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Mines 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

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.