When it comes to popularity, a bachelor's degree in genetics sits in the middle of the road, ranking #176 out of 363 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
College Factual reviewed 5 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of genetics. Combined, these schools handed out 198 bachelor's degrees in genetics to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Genetics School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of genetics for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality genetics program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
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 college'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.
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
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 genetics students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of genetics 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 easy is it for genetics to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized genetics related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for genetics students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Genetics Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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Clemson University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in genetics. Located in the medium-sized suburb of Clemson, Clemson is a public university with a very large student population.
Genetics bachelor's degree recipients from Clemson University get an earnings boost of about $6,117 over the typical income of genetics majors.
Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in genetics has to check out University of Georgia. UGA is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Athens.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the genetics program state that they receive average early career earnings of $19,112.
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).