If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in biological & physical science, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #119 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of biological & physical science. Combined, these schools handed out 48 bachelor's degrees in biological & physical science to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Biological & Physical Science School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The biological science bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to biological & physical science students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other biological & physical science students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt biological & physical science students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized biological & physical science related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for biological & physical science students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Biological & Physical Science Schools
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 Best Biological & Physical Science Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Biological & Physical Science in the Southwest Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in biological & physical science.
Top Southwest Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Biological Science
It's difficult to beat The University of Texas at San Antonio if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in biological & physical science. Located in the large city of San Antonio, UTSA is a public university with a very large student population.
Bachelor's recipients from the biological & physical science degree program at The University of Texas at San Antonio earn $4,241 above the average college grad with the same degree shortly after graduation.
It is hard to beat University of Houston - Downtown if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in biological & physical science. UH Downtown is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Houston.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the biological science program report average early career wages of $36,725.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest of our data about colleges.