2024 Best Biomedical Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
Biomedical Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #60 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 12 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for biomedical engineering students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 889 bachelor's degrees in biomedical engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Biomedical Engineering School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of biomedical engineering for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality bio engineering program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to biomedical engineering students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of biomedical engineering students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Student Debt - How much debt biomedical 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 biomedical engineering related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for biomedical engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Biomedical Engineering Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Biomedical Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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