2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biomedical Engineering in District of Columbia
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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 “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in District of Columbia” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Biomedical Engineering is the 71st most popular major in the country with 12,811 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 District of Columbia, there were 106 biomedical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,162 and $25,384 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 biomedical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $81,283 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in District of Columbia” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in biomedical engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in biomedical engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in District of Columbia
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in District of Columbia”.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biomedical Engineering in District of Columbia
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Catholic University of America. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in District of Columbia list. This medium-sized school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s bio engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Catholic University of America Biomedical Engineering Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, George Washington University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified doctorate’s bio engineering students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.
Read full report on Biomedical Engineering at George Washington University
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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
- *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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