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2022 Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

4 Ranked Colleges
117 Degrees Awarded
$20,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” 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.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 117 evolutionary biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in evolutionary biology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality evolutionary biology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the evolutionary biology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

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

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Evolutionary Biology (With Aid)

#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 Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. Harvard University is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 68 bachelors’s evolutionary biology degrees to qualified students.

Harvard also took the #1 spot in our “Best Evolutionary Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $15,386 for Bachelor’s Degree Evolutionary Biology students with aid per year to attend Harvard University.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low student loan default rate of 1.1% 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 Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University

#2

Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Yale University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid. Yale University is located in New Haven, Connecticut and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 32 bachelors’s evolutionary biology degrees to qualified students.

Yale also took the #2 spot in our “Best Evolutionary Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Yale University is $17,549 for Bachelor’s Degree Evolutionary Biology students with aid.

The low student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Evolutionary Biology at Yale University

#3

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, New York
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Stony Brook University landed the #3 spot on the list. Stony Brook University is located in Stony Brook, New York and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 11 bachelors’s evolutionary biology degrees to qualified students.

SUNY Stony Brook did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Evolutionary Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for SUNY Stony Brook is $15,160 for Bachelor’s Degree Evolutionary Biology students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Stony Brook University Evolutionary Biology Report

#4 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Evolutionary Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Case Western Reserve University landed the #4 spot on the list. Case Western is a private not-for-profit institution located in Cleveland, Ohio. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Case Western also made our “Best Evolutionary Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #4. It costs about $35,428 for bachelor’s degree evolutionary biology students with aid per year to attend Case Western.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Evolutionary Biology at Case Western

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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