2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Biological Engineering in the Southeast Region

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In 2020-2021, 410 people earned their degree in biological engineering, making the major the 288th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, biological engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $53,766 and had an average of $20,584 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 178 biological engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,770 and $22,501 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 biological engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in biological engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in biological engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Southeast Region”.

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

1

Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama

Top 10% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Auburn University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Southeast Region. 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 low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

Full Auburn University Biological Engineering Report

2

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#10 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Georgia landed the #2 spot on the list. UGA is a public institution located in Athens, Georgia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Biological Engineering at UGA

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Biological 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.