If you're seeking a degree in biometry/biometrics, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #926 one in the country in terms of popularity.While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of biometry/biometrics. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 114 degrees in biometry/biometrics annually.
Your choice of biometry/biometrics school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for biometry/biometrics schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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Best Schools for Biometry/Biometrics in the United States
The schools below may not offer all types of biometry/biometrics degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Cornell University is a great decision for students interested in a degree in biometry/biometrics. Located in the small city of Ithaca, Cornell is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #9 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Cornell is a great university overall.
There were approximately 24 biometry/biometrics students who graduated with this degree at Cornell in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in biometry/biometrics has to look into George Mason University. Located in the suburb of Fairfax, GMU is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 4th out of 57 colleges for overall quality in the state of Virginia.
There were about 24 biometry/biometrics students who graduated with this degree at GMU in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat Arizona State University - Tempe if you wish to pursue a degree in biometry/biometrics. Located in the midsize city of Tempe, ASU - Tempe is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 26 schools for overall quality in the state of Arizona.
There were about 23 biometry/biometrics students who graduated with this degree at ASU - Tempe in the most recent year we have data available.
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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