2024 Best Biological Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

If you're seeking a Bachelor's Degree in biological engineering, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #233 one in the country in terms of popularity.While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Biological Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 43 bachelor's degrees in biological engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor'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 - How many other biological engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• 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 much debt biological engineering students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• 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 bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Biological Engineering Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Biological Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Biological Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in biological engineering.

Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Biological Engineering

1

University of Idaho
Moscow, ID

16 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat University of Idaho if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in biological engineering. U of I is a large public university located in the distant town of Moscow.More information about a bachelor’s in biological engineering from University of Idaho

2

Utah State University
Logan, UT

27 Annual Graduates

$44,364 Median Starting Salary

$12,000 Median Student Debt

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in biological engineering has to look into Utah State University. Located in the small city of Logan, USU is a public university with a very large student population.

After graduating, biological engineering bachelor's recipients generally make around $44,364 in the first five years of their career.

More information about a bachelor’s in biological engineering from Utah State University

Best Biological Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best biological engineering colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Utah	204	27
Colorado	190	0
Idaho	171	16

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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	43

Most Popular Majors Related to Biological Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering	2,007
Civil Engineering	790
Electrical Engineering	680
Chemical Engineering	628
Computer Engineering	315
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	287
Biomedical Engineering	213
Environmental Engineering	129
Petroleum Engineering	125
Electrical and Computer Engineering.	109

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.