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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the New England Region” 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 the New England region, there were 153 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,470 and $116,265 respectively.
The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their bioinformatics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the New England Region” list to help you make the college decision.
One of our other unique offerings is College Combat. This tool lets you build your own customized comparisons utilizing the factors that are most important to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the New England Region”.
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Boston University landed the #1 spot on the list. Boston U is a large school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 5 doctorate’s bioinformatics degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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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