2023 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Science in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Biological Science Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 the Southwest region, there were 1,580 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,817 and $18,855 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,218 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Biological Science Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in biological and physical science. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in biological and physical science.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The biological science school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Well Attended Biological Science Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate”.

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Most Well Attended Biological Science Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Biological Science Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate”.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Science in the Southwest Region

1

Rice University
Houston, Texas

#1 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rice University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Biological Science Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate list. Rice University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 3 doctorate’s biological science degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Biological & Physical Science at Rice University

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Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas

#5 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baylor College of Medicine. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Biological Science Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate list. This small school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 0 doctorate’s biological science degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full Baylor College of Medicine Biological & Physical Science Report

• Most Popular 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.