2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computational Biology in the Far Western US Region
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Computational Biology is the 797th most popular major in the country with 287 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 26 computational biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 computational biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,396 and $49,784 respectively.
The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their computational biology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational Biology Major in the Far Western US Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational Biology Major in the Far Western US Region”.
Top 1 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computational Biology in the Far Western US Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational Biology Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern California landed the #1 spot on the list. USC is a private not-for-profit institution located in Los Angeles, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.
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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%.
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- *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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