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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in New Jersey” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Bioinformatics is the 397th most popular major in the country with 1,140 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across New Jersey, there were 15 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,273 and $23,888 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in New Jersey” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in bioinformatics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their bioinformatics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The bioinformatics school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in New Jersey”.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in New Jersey”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Jersey Institute of Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in New Jersey. This fairly large school is located in Newark, New Jersey, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Bioinformatics at New Jersey Institute of Technology
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in New Jersey that were part of this year’s ranking, Rowan University landed the #2 spot on the list. Rowan University is a fairly large public school situated in Glassboro, New Jersey. It awarded 2 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Bioinformatics at Rowan
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in New Jersey that were part of this year’s ranking, Ramapo College of New Jersey landed the #3 spot on the list. Mahwah, New Jersey is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees to 5 students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Bioinformatics at Ramapo College of New Jersey
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in New Jersey that were part of this year’s ranking, Stevens Institute of Technology landed the #3 spot on the list. Stevens Institute of Technology is located in Hoboken, New Jersey and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.4% 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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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
- *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.
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