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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Virginia” 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 Virginia, there were 63 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,688 and $121,343 respectively.
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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Virginia” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia doctor’s degree bioinformatics students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Tech. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Virginia list. Virginia Tech is a large public school situated in Blacksburg, Virginia. It awarded 3 doctorate’s bioinformatics degrees in 2021-2022.
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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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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