4
Ranked Colleges
34
Degrees Awarded
$22,000
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Bioinformatics is the 397th most popular major in the country with 1,140 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 39 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 34 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,140 and $21,982 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in bioinformatics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in bioinformatics.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brigham Young University - Provo. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Provo, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees to 34 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, 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%.
Read full report on Bioinformatics at Brigham Young University - Provo
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Dixie State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Dixie State University is located in Saint George, Utah and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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%.
Full Dixie State College Bioinformatics Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Montana landed the #3 spot on the list. UM is a public institution located in Missoula, Montana. 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 3.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Bioinformatics at UM
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lewis - Clark State College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. Located in Lewiston, Idaho, this small public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s bioinformatics students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Bioinformatics at Lewis - Clark State College
Switch to a Different Ranking Method
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.
Credits
- Credit for the banner image above goes to Pixabay.
