2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Evolutionary Biology (Income $0-$30k) in the Great Lakes Region

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 Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 166 people earned their degree in evolutionary biology, making the major the 816th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 14 evolutionary biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 evolutionary biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,428 and $121,375 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Evolutionary Biology (Income $0-$30k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$61,548 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Chicago landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Chicago is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 doctorate’s evolutionary biology degrees to qualified students.

UChicago not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Evolutionary Biology Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UChicago are $61,548, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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