2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Biology

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Biology Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 human biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Biology Major” ranking analyzed 3 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Human Biology Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree human biology students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Biology

1

University of Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Indianapolis. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Biology Major list. UIndy is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Indianapolis, Indiana. It awarded 2 masters’s human biology degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of Indianapolis Human Biology Report

2

University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

Top 5% overall quality in United States

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 Master’s Highly Focused on Human Biology Major list. Located in Seattle, Washington, this large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s human biology 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 University of Washington - Seattle Campus Human Biology Report

3

Liberty University
Lynchburg, Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Liberty University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Biology Major list. This large school is located in Lynchburg, Virginia, and it awarded 2 masters’s human biology degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Human Biology at Liberty University

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.