2023 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science in the Southeast Region

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 “Most Well Attended Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 18,901 people earned their degree in clinical/medical laboratory science, making the major the 93rd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, clinical/medical laboratory science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,036 and had an average of $19,885 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 5,662 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,178 and $18,271 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in clinical/medical laboratory science. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in clinical/medical laboratory science.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree clinical laboratory science students.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science in the Southeast Region

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Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate list. Located in Mississippi State, Mississippi, this large public school awarded 12 degrees to qualified doctorate’s clinical laboratory science students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Mississippi State University Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science Report

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University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Top 25% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Kentucky landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Kentucky is located in Lexington, Kentucky and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 37 doctorate’s clinical laboratory science degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. 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 Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science at University of Kentucky

• Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science

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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