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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 in Georgia For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Bioinformatics is the 397th most popular major in the country with 1,156 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Georgia, there were 51 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great bioinformatics 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 bioinformatics program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
One Size Does Not Fit All
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 in Georgia For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Bioinformatics Schools in Georgia For Those Getting Aid.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Best Value Bioinformatics Schools in Georgia For Those Getting Aid list. This large school is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and it awarded 38 ’s bioinformatics degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Georgia Tech, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Bioinformatics Schools in Georgia” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Georgia Tech is $14,974 for Georgia Bioinformatics students with aid.
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 low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%.
Read more about Bioinformatics at Georgia Tech
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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
- *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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