2025 Best Bioinformatics Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
97Bioinformatics Degrees Awarded
Bioinformatics is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #397 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Bioinformatics Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 97 degrees in bioinformatics annually.
Your choice of bioinformatics school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Bioinformatics School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Bioinformatics Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Bioinformatics in the Southwest Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the bioinformatics degrees they offer, see the list below.
It's hard to beat Arizona State University - Tempe if you wish to pursue a degree in bioinformatics. ASU - Tempe is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Tempe. A Best Colleges rank of #108 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means ASU - Tempe is a great university overall.
There were approximately 25 bioinformatics students who graduated with this degree at ASU - Tempe in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in bioinformatics has to check out University of Arizona. Located in the large city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 26 schools for overall quality in the state of Arizona.
There were roughly 2 bioinformatics students who graduated with this degree at University of Arizona in the most recent year we have data available.
Arizona State University - Skysong is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in bioinformatics. Located in the city of Scottsdale, ASU - Skysong is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 8th out of 26 colleges for overall quality in the state of Arizona.
There were about 40 bioinformatics students who graduated with this degree at ASU - Skysong in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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Your choice of bioinformatics school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Bioinformatics School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
