2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Human Biology Major in the Far Western US Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Human Biology Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Human Biology is the 285th most popular major in the country with 1,939 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 830 human biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 human biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,423 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Human Biology Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in human biology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their human biology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Human Biology Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region doctor’s degree human biology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Human Biology in the Far Western US Region

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University of Nevada - Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Human Biology Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nevada - Las Vegas landed the #1 spot on the list. UNLV is a large school located in Las Vegas, Nevada that handed out 7 doctorate’s human biology degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Human Biology at UNLV

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University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

#11 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Human Biology Major in the Far Western US Region list. Seattle, Washington is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s human biology degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full UW Seattle Human Biology Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Human Biology

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.