You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stanford University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Biomedical Science for a Doctorate list. Stanford is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Stanford, California. It awarded 8 doctorate’s biomedical science degrees in 2020-2021.
Stanford also made our “Best Biological & Biomedical Sciences (Other) Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list, coming in at #1.Among the 15,953 students enrolled at Stanford, 188 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 118 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $18,909. On top of their other funding sources, 61 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.