2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Science in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Biological Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Biological & Physical Science is the 36th most popular major in the country with 29,162 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, biological and physical science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,647 and had an average of $18,790 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 570 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,000 and $22,458 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,970 and $95,025 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great biological and physical science programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the biological and physical science program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The biological science school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Biological Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region”.

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Best Value Biological Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree biological science students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Science in the Southwest Region

#1

Rice University

Houston, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$47,913 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Biological Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Rice University landed the #1 spot on the list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s biological science degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

Rice did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Biological & Physical Science Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Rice University are $47,913, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Biological & Physical Science at Rice University

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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