2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 472 people earned their degree in biological engineering, making the major the 288th most popular in the United States. 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 Far Western US region, there were 55 biological engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,592 and $18,716 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 biological engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,633 and $152,837 respectively.
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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region doctor’s degree biological engineering students.
Top 1 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biological Engineering in the Far Western US Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Merced landed the #1 spot on the list. UC Merced is located in Merced, California and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 3 doctorate’s biological engineering degrees to qualified students.
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 more about Biological Engineering at University of California - Merced
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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
- *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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