2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in Louisiana

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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 Louisiana, there were 11 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,232 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in Louisiana” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biological and physical science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in biological and physical science.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in Louisiana

The colleges and universities below are the best for louisiana master’s degree biological science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Science in Louisiana

1

Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, Louisiana

#10 overall quality in Louisiana

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Louisiana Tech University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Ruston, Louisiana, this fairly large public school awarded 5 degrees to qualified masters’s biological science students in 2020-2021.

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2

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#2 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in Louisiana list. Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 masters’s biological science degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Biological & Physical Science at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Science in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Master’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.