2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering in District of Columbia

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In 2020-2021, 12,811 people earned their degree in bioengineering and biomedical engineering, making the major the 62nd most popular in the United States.

Across District of Columbia, there were 106 bioengineering and biomedical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 32 bioengineering and biomedical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,645 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioengineering Major in District of Columbia” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in bioengineering and biomedical engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their bioengineering and biomedical engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioengineering Major in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioengineering Major in District of Columbia”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering in District of Columbia

1

Catholic University of America
Washington, District of Columbia

#4 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Catholic University of America. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioengineering Major in District of Columbia. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 14 diplomas to qualified masters’s bioengineering students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering at CUA

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George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#2 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Washington University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioengineering Major in District of Columbia list. George Washington University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 18 masters’s bioengineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.

Read full report on Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering at George Washington University

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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 UC Davis College of Engineering.