2023 Most Popular 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 “Most Well Attended Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 137 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 38 genome sciences/genomics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in genome sciences/genomics. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in genome sciences/genomics.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Genome Sciences/Genomics in the Great Lakes Region

1

Manchester University
North Manchester, Indiana

$35,318 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,321 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Manchester University landed the #1 spot on the list. North Manchester, Indiana is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s genome sciences/genomics degrees to 26 students in 2020-2021.

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2

Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan

$48,414 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,323 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wayne State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Genome Sciences/Genomics Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Detroit, Michigan, this large public school awarded 1 degrees to qualified ’s genome sciences/genomics students in 2020-2021.

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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

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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