2024 Best General Genetics Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
3Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
19Doctor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in general genetics, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #130 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best General Genetics Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 19 doctor's degrees in general genetics during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great General Genetics School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of general genetics for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general genetics students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general genetics students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general genetics related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general genetics students working on their doctor's degree.
The general genetics school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best General Genetics Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study General Genetics in the Middle Atlantic Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in general genetics.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Doctorate in General Genetics
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).