2023 Most Popular Colleges for Gene/Genetic Therapy

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 “Most Well Attended Gene/Genetic Therapy Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Gene/Genetic Therapy is the 1177th most popular major in the country with 31 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Gene/Genetic Therapy Major” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in gene/genetic therapy. To top this list, a school must have a successful gene/genetic therapy program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Gene/Genetic Therapy Major” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Most Well Attended Gene/Genetic Therapy Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Gene/Genetic Therapy Major”.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Gene/Genetic Therapy

1

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

$51,207 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,269 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Gene/Genetic Therapy Major that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Connecticut is a large public school situated in Storrs, Connecticut. It awarded 27 ’s gene/genetic therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Gene/Genetic Therapy at UCONN

2

Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
Rochester, Minnesota

$103,226 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,684 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mayo Clinic School of Medicine. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Gene/Genetic Therapy Major. Mayo Clinic School of Medicine is located in Rochester, Minnesota and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 ’s gene/genetic therapy degrees to qualified students.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Gene/Genetic Therapy at Mayo Clinic School of Medicine

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.