Best Biological Engineering Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the United States

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the United States that made our Best Biological Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Biological Engineering School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of biological engineering for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to biological engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of biological engineering students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for biological engineering to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized biological engineering related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for biological engineering students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the United States

Because of absent data, we couldn't show you the biological engineering quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the United States that both offer biological engineering and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

Biological Engineering by Region

View the Best Biological Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

View All Rankings >

Biological Engineering Related Rankings by Major

One of 41 majors within the Engineering area of study, Biological Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Biological Engineering Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Biological/Biosystems Engineering	29

Majors Similar to Biological Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering	2,178
Mechanical Engineering	1,842
Biomedical Engineering	1,361
Civil Engineering	1,240
Chemical Engineering	1,120
Materials Engineering	772
General Engineering	458
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	428
Computer Engineering	392
Industrial Engineering	346

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jun Seita. More about our data sources and methodologies.