2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Bioinformatics in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Bioinformatics is the 446th most popular major in the country with 1,100 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 143 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality bioinformatics programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the bioinformatics program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree bioinformatics students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Bioinformatics in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$22,021 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Commonwealth University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Richmond, Virginia, this large public school awarded 25 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s bioinformatics students in 2019-2020.

VCU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Bioinformatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Virginia Commonwealth University is $22,021 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Bioinformatics students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Bioinformatics at Virginia Commonwealth University

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Bioinformatics (With Aid)

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.

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