2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in the Southeast Region
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In 2021-2022, 2,949 people earned their degree in microbiology, making the major the 224th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 274 microbiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 microbiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 4 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Microbiology in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clemson University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in the Southeast Region list. Clemson University is a large public school situated in Clemson, South Carolina. It awarded 4 masters’s microbiology degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Microbiology at Clemson
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, North Carolina State University landed the #2 spot on the list. NC State is a large school located in Raleigh, North Carolina that handed out 4 masters’s microbiology degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
Read more about Microbiology at NC State
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vanderbilt University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 5 degrees to qualified masters’s microbiology students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Microbiology at Vanderbilt University
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Georgia landed the #4 spot on the list. Athens, Georgia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s microbiology degrees to 1 students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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%.
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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%.
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- *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.