by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 the Southwest Region” 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 the Southwest region, there were 97 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 68 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree bioinformatics students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Skysong. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Scottsdale, Arizona, and it awarded 40 masters’s bioinformatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Dallas landed the #2 spot on the list. Richardson, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s bioinformatics degrees to 10 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #3 spot on the list. ASU - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 9 masters’s bioinformatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, 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 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, this fairly large public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s bioinformatics students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at El Paso. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region. UTEP is a large school located in El Paso, Texas that handed out 8 masters’s bioinformatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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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