by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Biological Science Major in Washington for a Bachelor’s” 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 Washington, there were 242 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,655 and $22,640 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 242 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,905 and $22,558 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Biological Science Major in Washington for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biological and physical science. To top this list, a school must have a successful biological and physical science program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Biological Science Major in Washington for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for washington bachelor’s degree biological science students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The Evergreen State College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Biological Science Major in Washington for a Bachelor’s list. Evergreen is located in Olympia, Washington and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 136 bachelors’s biological science degrees to qualified students.
Read full report on Biological & Physical Science at The Evergreen State College
Out of the 5 schools in the Most Well Attended Biological Science Major in Washington for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Whitworth University landed the #2 spot on the list. Whitworth is a small school located in Spokane, Washington that handed out 51 bachelors’s biological science degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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 be in good company if you decide to attend Western Washington University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Biological Science Major in Washington for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Bellingham, Washington, this fairly large public school awarded 27 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s biological science students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Puget Sound. The school came in at #4 for the Most Well Attended Biological Science Major in Washington for a Bachelor’s. University of Puget Sound is a private not-for-profit institution located in Tacoma, Washington. The school has a small population, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read more about Biological & Physical Science at University of Puget Sound
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Washington State University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Biological Science Major in Washington for a Bachelor’s list. Wazzu is a large school located in Pullman, Washington that handed out 12 bachelors’s biological science degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% 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%.
Full Washington State University Biological & Physical Science Report
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