2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Genetics Major in the Far Western US Region
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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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Genetics Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 735 people earned their degree in general genetics, making the major the 519th most popular in the United States.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 149 general genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 general genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,396 and $49,784 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Genetics Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in general genetics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general genetics.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Genetics Major in the Far Western US Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree general genetics students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Genetics in the Far Western US Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Davis. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Genetics Major in the Far Western US Region list. UC Davis is a public institution located in Davis, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad 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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full University of California - Davis General Genetics Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Genetics Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Washington - Seattle Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Washington - Seattle Campus is a large school located in Seattle, Washington that handed out 0 masters’s general genetics degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about General Genetics at UW Seattle
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern California University of Health Sciences. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Genetics Major in the Far Western US Region. Located in Whittier, California, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s general genetics students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Genetics at Southern California University of Health Sciences
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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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