2023 Most Focused Colleges for Biometry/Biometrics in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Biometry/Biometrics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 114 people earned their degree in biometry/biometrics, making the major the 926th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 4 biometry/biometrics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Biometry/Biometrics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biometry/biometrics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their biometry/biometrics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools Highly Focused on Biometry/Biometrics Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region biometry/biometrics students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Biometry/Biometrics in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

#6 overall quality in Great Lakes

$50,802 Average Early-Career Earnings

$29,176 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Biometry/Biometrics Major in the Great Lakes Region. This large school is located in Madison, Wisconsin, and it awarded 4 ’s biometry/biometrics 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 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%.

Full University of Wisconsin - Madison Biometry/Biometrics Report

2

Kent State University at Kent
Kent, Ohio

$38,945 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,935 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Biometry/Biometrics Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Kent State University at Kent landed the #2 spot on the list. Kent State University at Kent is located in Kent, Ohio and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 ’s biometry/biometrics degrees to qualified students.

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%.

Read more about Biometry/Biometrics at Kent State University at Kent

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

Footnotes

• *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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