You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Chicago. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Genetics Major in Illinois list. UChicago is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 34 ’s genetics degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% 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%.