2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Biological Systematics
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Systematic Biology Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In , 0 people earned their degree in biological systematics, making the major the 1312th most popular in the United States.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 0 biological systematics graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,979 and $43,370 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Systematic Biology Major” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biological systematics. That schools that top this list have a program in biological systematics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Systematic Biology Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree systematic biology students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Biological Systematics
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marshall University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Systematic Biology Major list. Huntington, West Virginia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s systematic biology degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
[Full Marshall University Biological Systematics Report](/colleges/marshall-university/academic-life/academic-majors/biological-biomedical-sciences/ecology-evolution-systematics-population-biology/Biological Systematics)
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Systematic Biology Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Harvard University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s systematic biology students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.
[Read full report on Biological Systematics at Harvard University](/colleges/harvard-university/academic-life/academic-majors/biological-biomedical-sciences/ecology-evolution-systematics-population-biology/Biological Systematics)
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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
- *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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