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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Michigan” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 1,140 people earned their degree in bioinformatics, making the major the 397th most popular in the United States.
Across Michigan, there were 59 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 38 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,121 and $41,673 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Michigan” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in bioinformatics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in bioinformatics.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Michigan”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor landed the #1 spot on the list. U-M is a large school located in Ann Arbor, Michigan that handed out 21 masters’s bioinformatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.2% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Bioinformatics Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Grand Valley State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Michigan. GVSU is a large school located in Allendale, Michigan that handed out 17 masters’s bioinformatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Bioinformatics at Grand Valley State University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Michigan University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Michigan list. Ypsilanti, Michigan is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s bioinformatics degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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 Eastern Michigan Bioinformatics Report
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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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