2023 Best Value Human Biology Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Human Biology is the 191st most popular major in the country with 1,939 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, human biology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,081 and had an average of $17,912 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 753 human biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $20,433 and $11,000 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Human Biology Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in human biology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great human biology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the human biology program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Human Biology Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Human Biology Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Human Biology in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Hunter College
New York, New York

#2 in overall quality

$2,158 Average Net Price

$47,839 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hunter College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Best Value Human Biology Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in New York, New York, this large public school awarded 485 degrees to qualified ’s human biology students in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Hunter, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Human Biology Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Hunter College is $2,158 for middle atlantic region human biology students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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%.

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2

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

#1 in overall quality

$23,428 Average Net Price

$68,344 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Human Biology Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Johns Hopkins University landed the #2 spot on the list. Johns Hopkins is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Baltimore, Maryland. It awarded 40 ’s human biology degrees in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Johns Hopkins, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Human Biology Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $23,428 for middle atlantic region human biology students per year to attend Johns Hopkins University.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. 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 school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Human Biology at Johns Hopkins University

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.