2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Bioinformatics in Texas

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Texas” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Bioinformatics is the 397th most popular major in the country with 1,140 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across Texas, there were 28 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,918 and $22,392 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Texas” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in bioinformatics. That schools that top this list have a program in bioinformatics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Texas

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Texas”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Bioinformatics in Texas

1

Saint Edward's University
Austin, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Edward’s University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Texas list. This small school is located in Austin, Texas, and it awarded 3 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 Saint Edward’s University

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Baylor University
Waco, Texas

#6 overall quality in Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baylor University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Texas list. Baylor University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Waco, Texas. It awarded 2 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.

Full Baylor University Bioinformatics Report

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

Footnotes

• *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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