2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$52,770
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Biological Engineering is the 288th most popular major in the country with 472 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , biological engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $53,766 and had an average of $20,318 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 168 biological engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,770 and $23,624 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 156 biological engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in biological engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their biological engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree biological engineering students.
Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biological Engineering in the Southeast Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Auburn University landed the #1 spot on the list. Auburn, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s biological engineering degrees to 40 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.
Read full report on Biological Engineering at Auburn University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arkansas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Fayetteville, Arkansas, this large public school awarded 40 degrees to qualified bachelors’s biological engineering students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full UARK Biological Engineering Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Georgia landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Georgia is a large public school situated in Athens, Georgia. It awarded 59 bachelors’s biological engineering degrees 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%.
Read full report on Biological Engineering at University of Georgia
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Florida landed the #4 spot on the list. University of Florida is a large public school situated in Gainesville, Florida. It awarded 17 bachelors’s biological engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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.
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