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2023 Best Value Biological & Biomedical Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

6 Colleges
$25,967 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$64,354 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Biological & Biomedical Sciences Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 28,851 biological and biomedical sciences students received a degree or certificate, making the major the #9 most popular in the country.

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The Best Value Biological & Biomedical Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 6 schools in the Southwest Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for biological and biomedical sciences students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Biological & Biomedical Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for biological and biomedical sciences majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best Southwest Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Biological & Biomedical Sciences

Our analysis found Oklahoma State University - Main Campus to be the best value school for biological and biomedical sciences students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Southwest Region . OSU is a very large public school located in the distant town of Stillwater.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at OSU are $24,175 per year.

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Out of the 6 schools in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at El Paso landed the # 2 spot on the list. UTEP is a fairly large public school located in the city of El Paso.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UTEP are $16,621 a year.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Arizona State University - Tempe is a great value for biological and biomedical sciences students working on their graduate certificate. ASU - Tempe is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Tempe.

ASU - Tempe graduate students pay an average of $24,432 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Dallas. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Biological & Biomedical Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the medium-sized city of Richardson, UT Dallas is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UT Dallas are $29,252 a year.

Full Biological & Biomedical Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas Report

#5

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Biological & Biomedical Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at University of Arizona are $33,644 a year.

Full Biological & Biomedical Sciences at University of Arizona Report

With a ranking of #6, University of North Texas Health Science Center did quite well on this year’s best value schools for biological and biomedical sciences students working on their graduate certificate. UNT Health Science Center is a small public school located in the city of Fort Worth.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UNT Health Science Center are $30,961 a year.

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Best Biological & Biomedical Sciences Colleges by State

Explore the best biological and biomedical sciences colleges for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 454
Texas 2,128
Oklahoma 193
New Mexico 69

Biological & Biomedical Sciences Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
General Biology 8,920
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology 3,221
Physiology & Pathology Sciences 2,488
Biomathematics & Bioinformatics 2,290
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology 1,964
Biological & Biomedical Sciences (Other) 1,922
Biotechnology 1,567
Cell Biology & Anatomical Sciences 1,509
Microbiological Sciences & Immunology 1,244
Neurobiology & Neurosciences 1,241
Pharmacology & Toxicology 825
Genetics 717
Zoology 489
Botany/Plant Biology 371
Molecular Medicine 83

Related Major Annual Graduates
Engineering 61,791
Computer & Information Sciences 60,971
Mathematics & Statistics 15,127
Physical Sciences 12,705
Engineering Technologies 7,672

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 6 schools only.

  • 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 Kelly White.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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