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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. 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 Wisconsin” 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 Wisconsin, there were 12 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,375 and $37,397 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Wisconsin” ranking analyzed 3 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 following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Wisconsin”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Wisconsin that were part of this year’s ranking, Marquette University landed the #1 spot on the list. Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s bioinformatics degrees to 3 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, 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 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Marquette University Bioinformatics Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Wisconsin list. UW - Madison is a public institution located in Madison, Wisconsin. The school has a large population, and it awarded 7 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, 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 0.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Bioinformatics at UW - Madison
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Medical College of Wisconsin. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Wisconsin list. Medical College of Wisconsin is a private not-for-profit institution located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Full Medical College of Wisconsin 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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