If you're seeking a Bachelor's Degree in biostatistics, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #798 one in the country in terms of popularity.As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of biostatistics. Combined, these schools handed out 84 bachelor's degrees in biostatistics to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Biostatistics School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The biostatistics bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to biostatistics students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other biostatistics students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized biostatistics related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for biostatistics students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Biostatistics Bachelor's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Biostatistics in the United States
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in biostatistics.
Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in biostatistics has to look into Duke University. Located in the large city of Durham, Duke is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in biostatistics from Duke University
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).