2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biostatistics in the Southeast Region
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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 for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biostatistics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Biostatistics is the 382nd most popular major in the country with 1,330 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 326 biostatistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 biostatistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biostatistics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biostatistics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in biostatistics.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biostatistics Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree biostatistics students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biostatistics in the Southeast Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biostatistics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, this large public school awarded 29 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s biostatistics students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Biostatistics at UNC Chapel Hill
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Duke University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biostatistics Major in the Southeast Region. Duke is a fairly large school located in Durham, North Carolina that handed out 51 bachelors’s biostatistics degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 98%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read full report on Biostatistics at Duke
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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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