2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in North Carolina
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in North Carolina” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 2,949 people earned their degree in microbiology, making the major the 224th most popular in the United States.
Across North Carolina, there were 53 microbiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 47 microbiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,381 and $23,483 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in North Carolina” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in microbiology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their microbiology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in North Carolina
The colleges and universities below are the best for north carolina bachelor’s degree microbiology students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Microbiology in North Carolina
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Carolina State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in North Carolina list. This large school is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and it awarded 47 bachelors’s microbiology degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.
Full North Carolina State University Microbiology Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Methodist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Methodist University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Fayetteville, North Carolina. It awarded 0 bachelors’s microbiology degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Microbiology at Methodist 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.
