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

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

Across the Plains States region, there were 50 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in bioinformatics. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality bioinformatics programs that also have a lower cost than 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 bioinformatics program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Plains States 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 Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

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

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Bioinformatics in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

#1

University of Nebraska at Omaha

Omaha, Nebraska

#2 in overall quality

$14,040 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska at Omaha landed the #1 spot on the list. Omaha, Nebraska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees to 11 students in 2019-2020.

UNOMAHA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Bioinformatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $14,040 for plains states region bachelor’s degree bioinformatics students with aid per year to attend UNOMAHA.

Full University of Nebraska at Omaha Bioinformatics Report

#2

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$15,496 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Iowa State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Iowa State is a large school located in Ames, Iowa that handed out 2 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Iowa State, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Bioinformatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $15,496 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Bioinformatics students with aid per year to attend Iowa State.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on Bioinformatics at Iowa State 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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