2022 Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 3,585 people earned their degree in biotechnology, making the major the 171st most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, biotechnology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $50,092 and had an average of $32,815 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 246 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,300 and $23,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 81 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in biotechnology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality biotechnology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the biotechnology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The biotech school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k”.

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Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree biotech students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biotechnology (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region

#1

University of Houston

Houston, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$18,844 Average Net Price

$40,089 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston landed the #1 spot on the list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s biotech degrees to 74 students in 2019-2020.

UH did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Biotechnology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend UH is $18,844 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Biotech students whose families make $75-$110k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Biotechnology at UH

#2

University of Houston - Downtown

Houston, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$13,592 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston - Downtown landed the #2 spot on the list. UH Downtown is a fairly large public school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 7 bachelors’s biotech degrees in 2019-2020.

UH Downtown did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Biotechnology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for UH Downtown is $13,592 for southwest region bachelor’s degree biotech students whose families make $75-$110k.

Read more about Biotechnology at University of Houston - Downtown

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biotechnology (Income $75-$110k)

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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Henk Caspers/Naturalis Biodiversity Center.

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