Biological Engineeringbachelor's programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major degree program ranks #233 out of the 363 majors we look at each year. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Biological Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 53 bachelor's degrees in biological engineering to qualified students.
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Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on biological engineering students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of biological 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 easy is it for biological engineering 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 biological engineering related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for biological engineering 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 Biological Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in biological engineering has to check out University of Missouri - Columbia. Located in the city of Columbia, Mizzou is a public university with a very large student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the biological engineering program report average early career wages of $60,190.
Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in biological engineering needs to take a look at University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Located in the large city of Lincoln, UNL is a public university with a very large student population.
Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the biological engineering program make about $61,755 for their early career.
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).
