2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Evolutionary Biology in California (With Aid)

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 699 people earned their degree in evolutionary biology, making the major the 502nd most popular in the United States.

Across California, there were 54 evolutionary biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 evolutionary biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,281 and $50,119 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent evolutionary biology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the evolutionary biology program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Evolutionary Biology in California (With Aid)

#1

University of California - Irvine

Irvine, California

#1 in overall quality

$28,456 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Irvine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid list. UC Irvine is a large school located in Irvine, California that handed out 7 masters’s evolutionary biology degrees in 2019-2020.

UC Irvine not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Evolutionary Biology Master’s Degree Schools in California” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of California - Irvine are $28,456.

Read full report on Evolutionary Biology at University of California - Irvine

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Evolutionary Biology (With Aid)

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.

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