by our College Data Analytics Team
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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 30,075 people earned their degree in biological and physical science, making the major the 38th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, biological and physical science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,402 and had an average of $15,005 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Plains States region, there were 109 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,723 and $22,140 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biological and physical science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their biological and physical science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region associate degree biological science students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in the Plains States Region list. This small school is located in New Town, North Dakota, and it awarded 2 associates’s biological science degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Crown College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Saint Bonifacius, Minnesota, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified associates’s biological science students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.7% 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%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cleveland University - Kansas City. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in the Plains States Region. Overland Park, Kansas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s biological science degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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