2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational Biology Major in California
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Computational Biology Major in California” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Computational Biology is the 797th most popular major in the country with 287 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across California, 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 $63,735 and $51,649 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in computational biology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational Biology Major in California
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational Biology Major in California”.
Top 1 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computational Biology in California
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational Biology Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern California landed the #1 spot on the list. USC is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Los Angeles, California. It awarded 1 masters’s computational biology degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. 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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