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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 New Jersey” 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 New Jersey, there were 15 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,237 and $39,823 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in New Jersey” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in New Jersey” 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 new jersey master’s degree bioinformatics students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rowan University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in New Jersey. Rowan is located in Glassboro, New Jersey and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 5 masters’s bioinformatics degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Jersey Institute of Technology. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in New Jersey. New Jersey Institute of Technology is located in Newark, New Jersey and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 2 masters’s bioinformatics degrees to qualified students.
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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default 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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