2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Genome Sciences/Genomics in the Southeast Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 Southeast region, there were 22 genome sciences/genomics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 genome sciences/genomics graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in genome sciences/genomics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their genome sciences/genomics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Genome Sciences/Genomics in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Southeast Region list. Durham, North Carolina is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s genome sciences/genomics degrees to 7 students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 98%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Duke Genome Sciences/Genomics Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Carolina State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Southeast Region list. Raleigh, North Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s genome sciences/genomics degrees to 3 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Genome Sciences/Genomics at North Carolina State University
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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
- *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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