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

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Biological Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Biological Engineering is the 288th most popular major in the country with 410 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 “Most Well Attended Biological Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in biological engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular biological engineering programs in the United States.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Biological Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Biological Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Biological 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 Most Well Attended Biological Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s list. Auburn University is a large public school situated in Auburn, Alabama. It awarded 6 masters’s biological engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

Read full report on Biological Engineering at Auburn University

2

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 Most Well Attended Biological Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s. Athens, Georgia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s biological engineering degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full University of Georgia Biological 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.