2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Laboratory Technician in the New England Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 4,185 people earned their degree in laboratory technician, making the major the 193rd most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 88 laboratory technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 21 laboratory technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in laboratory technician. That schools that top this list have a program in laboratory technician in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in the New England Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Laboratory Technician in the New England Region

1

Rhode Island College
Providence, Rhode Island

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rhode Island College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in the New England Region list. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, this medium-sized public school awarded 4 degrees to qualified bachelors’s clinical laboratory technician students in 2020-2021.

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Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

#10 overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in the New England Region list. Boston University is a large school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 17 bachelors’s clinical laboratory technician degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

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• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Laboratory Technician

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

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