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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region” 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 the Southwest region, there were 97 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 26 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 5 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 colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree bioinformatics students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Edward’s University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region. St. Edward’s University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Austin, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Bioinformatics at Saint Edward’s University
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Baylor University landed the #2 spot on the list. Baylor University is located in Waco, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Bioinformatics at Baylor
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Portales, New Mexico, this medium-sized public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s bioinformatics students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.0% 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 ENMU - Main Campus Bioinformatics Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Tempe, Arizona, this large public school awarded 13 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s bioinformatics students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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 Arizona State University - Tempe
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #5 spot on the list. University of Arizona is a large public school situated in Tucson, Arizona. It awarded 2 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Bioinformatics at University of Arizona
