by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Texas” ranking.
In 2020-2021, 12,811 people earned their degree in biomedical engineering, making the major the 71st most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, biomedical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $59,445 and had an average of $22,702 in loans still to pay off.
Across Texas, there were 996 biomedical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,326 and $20,700 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 653 biomedical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,932 and $25,894 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Texas” ranking looked at 9 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biomedical engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their biomedical engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Texas” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Texas”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend LeTourneau University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Texas list. Longview, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s bio engineering degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rice University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Texas list. Rice is located in Houston, Texas and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 56 bachelors’s bio engineering degrees to qualified students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Dallas landed the #3 spot on the list. This large school is located in Richardson, Texas, and it awarded 114 bachelors’s bio engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in College Station, Texas, this large public school handed out 149 degrees to qualified bachelors’s bio engineering students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University - College Station
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Austin landed the #5 spot on the list. This large school is located in Austin, Texas, and it awarded 113 bachelors’s bio engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
The University of Texas at San Antonio came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Texas ranking. Located in San Antonio, Texas, this large public school handed out 44 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s bio engineering students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 5.0% 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%.
Full The University of Texas at San Antonio Biomedical Engineering Report
University of North Texas did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Texas ranking, coming in at #7. This large school is located in Denton, Texas, and it awarded 52 bachelors’s bio engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Biomedical Engineering at University of North Texas
University of Houston landed the #8 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Texas ranking. University of Houston is a public institution located in Houston, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 52 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
The University of Texas at Arlington landed the #9 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Texas ranking. The University of Texas at Arlington is a large school located in Arlington, Texas that handed out 62 bachelors’s bio engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington
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