2023 Most Focused Colleges for Microbiology in North Carolina
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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 “Schools Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in North Carolina” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Microbiology is the 224th most popular major in the country with 2,949 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across North Carolina, there were 53 microbiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in North Carolina” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in microbiology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in microbiology.
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Schools Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in North Carolina
The colleges and universities below are the best for north carolina microbiology students.
Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Microbiology in North Carolina
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, North Carolina State University landed the #1 spot on the list. NC State is a large school located in Raleigh, North Carolina that handed out 53 ’s microbiology degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.
Full NC State Microbiology Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Methodist University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Microbiology Major in North Carolina list. Located in Fayetteville, North Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified ’s microbiology students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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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.
