2022 Best Vallue Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making Over $110k

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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 associate degree level specifically, there were 14 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great biotechnology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the biotechnology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Vallue Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making Over $110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree biotech students whose families make more than $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Biotechnology (Income Over $110k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Central New Mexico Community College

Albuquerque, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$3,429 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Vallue Biotech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Central New Mexico Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. CNM is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 associates’s biotech degrees to qualified students.

CNM also took the #1 spot in our “Best Biotechnology Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $3,429 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Biotech students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend Central New Mexico Community College.

Read full report on Biotechnology at Central New Mexico Community College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Biotechnology (Income Over $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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