2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Louisiana

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Louisiana” 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 Louisiana, there were 149 biomedical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,246 and $21,492 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 biomedical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $79,076 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Louisiana” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Louisiana

The colleges and universities below are the best for louisiana doctor’s degree bio engineering students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biomedical Engineering in Louisiana

1

Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, Louisiana

#10 overall quality in Louisiana

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Louisiana Tech University landed the #1 spot on the list. Louisiana Tech University is located in Ruston, Louisiana and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 doctorate’s bio engineering degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Biomedical Engineering at Louisiana Tech

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Tulane University of Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana

#1 overall quality in Louisiana

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Tulane University of Louisiana landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 6 degrees to qualified doctorate’s bio engineering students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University of Louisiana

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biomedical Engineering in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biomedical Engineering

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.