2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Kansas

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Kansas” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Kansas, there were 82 biomedical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,986 and $26,146 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 biomedical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,354 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Kansas” ranking, we looked at 2 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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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Kansas

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Biomedical Engineering in Kansas

1

University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

#1 overall quality in Kansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kansas. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Kansas list. Lawrence, Kansas 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.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%.

Read full report on Biomedical Engineering at KU

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Wichita State University
Wichita, Kansas

#4 overall quality in Kansas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in Kansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Wichita State University landed the #2 spot on the list. WSU is a fairly large school located in Wichita, Kansas that handed out 4 masters’s bio engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Biomedical Engineering at WSU

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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.