2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Evolutionary Biology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
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Evolutionary Biology is the 890th most popular major in the country with 211 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 39 evolutionary biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 evolutionary biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,038 and $47,245 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Evolutionary Biology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in evolutionary biology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their evolutionary biology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Evolutionary Biology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree evolutionary biology students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Evolutionary Biology in the Middle Atlantic Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Evolutionary Biology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, George Washington University landed the #1 spot on the list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s evolutionary biology degrees to 8 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.4% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Evolutionary Biology at GWU
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Evolutionary Biology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lehigh University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s evolutionary biology students in 2021-2022.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.4% 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%.
Full Lehigh Evolutionary Biology Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Evolutionary Biology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Cornell University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Ithaca, New York, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 4 degrees to qualified masters’s evolutionary biology students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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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%.
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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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