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2022 Best Value Biology Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

5 Ranked Colleges
16 Degrees Awarded
$19,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Biology Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Biology Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking.

Biology Education is the 522nd most popular major in the country with 777 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 90 biology education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 biology education graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Biology Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biology education. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great biology education programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the biology education program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Biology Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree biology teacher education students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biology Education (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Northern Arizona University

Flagstaff, Arizona
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Arizona University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Biology Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. NAU is a large school located in Flagstaff, Arizona that handed out 8 bachelors’s biology teacher education degrees in 2019-2020.

NAU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Biology Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $9,251 for southwest region bachelor’s degree biology teacher education students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend NAU.

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#2

Texas Wesleyan University

Fort Worth, Texas
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Wesleyan University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Biology Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Texas Wesleyan University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Fort Worth, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Texas Wesleyan also took the #2 spot in our “Best Biology Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $22,498 for southwest region bachelor’s degree biology teacher education students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Texas Wesleyan.

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#3

Our Lady of the Lake University

San Antonio, Texas
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Our Lady of the Lake University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Biology Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k. OLLU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in San Antonio, Texas. It awarded 1 bachelors’s biology teacher education degrees in 2019-2020.

OLLU also made our “Best Biology Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #5. The estimated yearly cost for Our Lady of the Lake University is $16,153 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Biology Teacher Education students whose families make $0-$30k.

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#4

Baylor University

Waco, Texas
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Baylor University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Biology Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Located in Waco, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s biology teacher education students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Baylor, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Biology Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $26,726 for southwest region bachelor’s degree biology teacher education students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Baylor.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Mary Hardin - Baylor. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Biology Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Belton, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s biology teacher education degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

UMHB also made our “Best Biology Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #4. It costs about $24,867 for southwest region bachelor’s degree biology teacher education students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend University of Mary Hardin - Baylor.

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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

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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