2023 Most Focused Colleges for Biological Engineering in the Plains States 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 Engineering Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 472 people earned their degree in biological engineering, making the major the 288th most popular in the United States. In , biological engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $53,766 and had an average of $20,318 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Plains States region, there were 98 biological engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,548 and $21,500 respectively.
This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biological engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in biological engineering.
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Schools Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Biological Engineering in the Plains States Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska - Lincoln landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Lincoln, Nebraska, this large public school handed out 55 degrees to qualified ’s biological engineering students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Missouri - Columbia landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Missouri - Columbia is a large school located in Columbia, Missouri that handed out 43 ’s biological engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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%.
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- *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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