2024 Best Biological Engineering Schools in California
2Colleges in California
22Biological Engineering Degrees Awarded
$64,592Avg Early-Career Salary
Biological Engineering degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #288 out of the 395 majors we look at each year. This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for biological engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 22 degrees in biological engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Biological Engineering Schools in California ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Biological Engineering in California
The schools below may not offer all types of biological engineering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It's hard to beat University of California - San Diego if you wish to pursue a degree in biological engineering. Located in the large city of La Jolla, UCSD is a public university with a very large student population.
Students who graduate with their degree from the biological engineering program report average early career income of $64,592.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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