2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Human/Medical Genetics in the Southwest Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Human/Medical Genetics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 355 people earned their degree in human/medical genetics, making the major the 751st most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 18 human/medical genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 human/medical genetics graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,912 and $102,180 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Human/Medical Genetics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in human/medical genetics. That schools that top this list have a program in human/medical genetics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Human/Medical Genetics Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree human/medical genetics students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Human/Medical Genetics in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Human/Medical Genetics Major in the Southwest Region list. UT Southwestern is located in Dallas, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 17 doctorate’s human/medical genetics degrees to qualified students.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Human/Medical Genetics Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Human/Medical Genetics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston landed the #2 spot on the list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s human/medical genetics degrees to 1 students in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read full report on Human/Medical Genetics at UTHealth
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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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