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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the New England Region” ranking.
Bioinformatics is the 397th most popular major in the country with 1,140 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the New England region, there were 153 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,317 and $23,797 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in bioinformatics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in bioinformatics.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree bioinformatics students.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Wheaton College Massachusetts landed the #1 spot on the list. Wheaton College Massachusetts is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Norton, Massachusetts. It awarded 4 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Bioinformatics at Wheaton College Massachusetts
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the New England Region list. Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences is a medium-sized school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 0 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full MCPHS University Bioinformatics Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Saint Joseph landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in West Hartford, Connecticut, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. 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 University of Saint Joseph
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Worcester State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Worcester State is a public institution located in Worcester, Massachusetts. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Bioinformatics at Worcester State
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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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