2025 Best General Genetics Schools in the Great Lakes Region
3Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
183General Genetics Degrees Awarded
General Genetics is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #519 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of general genetics. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 183 degrees in general genetics annually.
Your choice of general genetics school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall General Genetics School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Genetics Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for General Genetics in the Great Lakes Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the general genetics degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools in General Genetics
University of Chicago is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in general genetics. UChicago is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Chicago. A Best Colleges rank of #3 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UChicago is a great university overall.
There were approximately 10 general genetics students who graduated with this degree at UChicago in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat University of Wisconsin - Madison if you wish to pursue a degree in general genetics. UW - Madison is a very large public university located in the large city of Madison. This university ranks 1st out of 46 schools for overall quality in the state of Wisconsin.
There were about 124 general genetics students who graduated with this degree at UW - Madison in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in general genetics has to look into Purdue University - Main Campus. Located in the small city of West Lafayette, Purdue is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 41 colleges for overall quality in the state of Indiana.
There were roughly 37 general genetics students who graduated with this degree at Purdue in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
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Your choice of general genetics school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall General Genetics School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
