2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Science in the Far Western US Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Far Western US region, there were 19,724 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,089 and $13,798 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,423 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree 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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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in the Far Western US Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Science in the Far Western US Region

1

Keck Graduate Institute
Claremont, California

#24 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Keck Graduate Institute. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in the Far Western US Region list. Claremont, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s biological science degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Biological & Physical Science at KGI

2

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Alaska Fairbanks is a medium-sized school located in Fairbanks, Alaska that handed out 3 doctorate’s biological science degrees in 2020-2021.

Full UAF Biological & Physical Science Report

• Most Focused Doctor’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.