2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Genome Sciences/Genomics in the Great Lakes Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 198 people earned their degree in genome sciences/genomics, making the major the 1004th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 54 genome sciences/genomics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 42 genome sciences/genomics graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,182 and $43,142 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in genome sciences/genomics. That schools that top this list have a program in genome sciences/genomics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree genome sciences/genomics students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Genome Sciences/Genomics in the Great Lakes Region

1

Manchester University
North Manchester, Indiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Manchester University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in North Manchester, Indiana, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 39 diplomas to qualified masters’s genome sciences/genomics students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Genome Sciences/Genomics at Manchester University

2

Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Wayne State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Detroit, Michigan, this large public school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s genome sciences/genomics students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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 Wayne State Genome Sciences/Genomics Report

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

• *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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