2025 Best Biological Engineering Schools in the Plains States Region
2Colleges in the Plains States Region
98Biological Engineering Degrees Awarded
$58,507Avg Early-Career Salary
You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a degree in biological engineering. It is ranked #288 out of 395 major degree programs 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 2025 Best Biological Engineering Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 98 degrees in biological engineering to qualified students.
The biological engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Biological Engineering Schools in the Plains States Region.
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Best Schools for Biological Engineering in the Plains States Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the biological engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Plains States Region Schools in Biological Engineering
Every student pursuing a degree in biological engineering needs to take a look at University of Missouri - Columbia. Located in the medium-sized city of Columbia, Mizzou is a public university with a very large student population.
After graduating, biological engineering degree recipients usually make around $60,190 in the first five years of their career.
University of Nebraska - Lincoln is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in biological engineering. Located in the large city of Lincoln, UNL is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Those biological engineering students who get their degree from University of Nebraska - Lincoln earn $3,248 more than the standard biological engineering student.
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).
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