by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Tennessee” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Tennessee, there were 174 biomedical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,528 and $23,345 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 biomedical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,060 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Tennessee” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer 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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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Tennessee”.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Memphis landed the #1 spot on the list. Memphis, Tennessee is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s bio engineering degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Tennessee. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 6 diplomas to qualified masters’s bio engineering students in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Tennessee. The University of Tennessee - Knoxville is located in Knoxville, Tennessee and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 masters’s bio engineering degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Tennessee - Health Science Center landed the #4 spot on the list. Memphis, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s bio engineering degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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