2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Microbiology Major in the Southwest Region
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Environmental Biology is the 599th most popular major in the country with 487 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 25 environmental biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 0 environmental biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Microbiology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in environmental biology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their environmental biology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Microbiology Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree environmental microbiology students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Biology in the Southwest Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Microbiology Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #1 spot on the list. Arizona State University - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 9 masters’s environmental microbiology degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Environmental Biology at ASU - Tempe
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Baylor University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Microbiology Major in the Southwest Region. Baylor is a large school located in Waco, Texas that handed out 0 masters’s environmental microbiology degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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- 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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