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2022 Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k

6 Ranked Colleges
24 Degrees Awarded
$41,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Master's For Those Making $48-$75k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 evolutionary biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in evolutionary biology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality evolutionary biology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the evolutionary biology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 6 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Evolutionary Biology (Income $48-$75k)

#1

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harvard University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k list. Harvard is a large school located in Cambridge, Massachusetts that handed out 3 masters’s evolutionary biology degrees in 2019-2020.

Harvard also took the #1 spot in our “Best Evolutionary Biology Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Harvard are $50,654, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Harvard Evolutionary Biology Report

#2

Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Yale University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k list. Yale is located in New Haven, Connecticut and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 masters’s evolutionary biology degrees to qualified students.

Yale not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Evolutionary Biology Master’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Yale University are $44,500, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Evolutionary Biology at Yale

#3

University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Chicago landed the #3 spot on the list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s evolutionary biology degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

UChicago did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Evolutionary Biology Master’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UChicago are $61,548, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Evolutionary Biology at University of Chicago

#4

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, Massachusetts
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k. UMass Amherst is a large school located in Amherst, Massachusetts that handed out 1 masters’s evolutionary biology degrees in 2019-2020.

UMass Amherst did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Evolutionary Biology Master’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UMass Amherst are $32,341, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Evolutionary Biology at UMass Amherst

#6 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k. Located in Tempe, Arizona, this large public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified masters’s evolutionary biology students in 2019-2020.

ASU - Tempe also took the #6 spot in our “Best Evolutionary Biology Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at ASU - Tempe are $27,048.

Read full report on Evolutionary Biology at ASU - Tempe

#6

George Washington University

Washington, District of Columbia
#4 in overall quality

With a ranking of #6, George Washington University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k list. This large school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 3 masters’s evolutionary biology degrees in 2019-2020.

GWU also made our “Best Evolutionary Biology Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #4. Average graduate tuition and fees at George Washington University are $31,824, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Evolutionary Biology at George Washington University

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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