2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in Minnesota

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in Minnesota” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Biological & Physical Science is the 38th most popular major in the country with 30,075 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Minnesota, there were 4 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,071 and $28,140 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in Minnesota” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in biological and physical science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in biological and physical science.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in Minnesota

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in Minnesota”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Science in Minnesota

1

St Catherine University
Saint Paul, Minnesota

#19 overall quality in Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend St Catherine University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in Minnesota list. St Catherine University is a small school located in Saint Paul, Minnesota that handed out 3 bachelors’s biological science degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Biological & Physical Science at St Catherine University

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Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
Winona, Minnesota

#9 overall quality in Minnesota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in Minnesota that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota landed the #2 spot on the list. Winona, Minnesota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s biological science degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

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 full report on Biological & Physical Science at SMU MN

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Science in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical 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.