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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Massachusetts” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 1,140 people earned their degree in bioinformatics, making the major the 397th most popular in the United States.
Across Massachusetts, there were 142 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,973 and $23,950 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Massachusetts” ranking analyzed 3 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 Massachusetts”.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Massachusetts”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Wheaton College Massachusetts landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Norton, Massachusetts, and 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 more about Bioinformatics at Wheaton College Massachusetts
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Worcester State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Worcester State University 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 University
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences landed the #2 spot on the list. MCPHS University is a medium-sized school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 0 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees in 2021-2022.
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 MCPHS University
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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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