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Best Value Biomedical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region

2023 Best Value Biomedical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

18 Colleges
$28,891 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$56,486 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Biomedical Engineering School for You

Biomedical Engineering is the #74 most popular major in the country with 12,811 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Biomedical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 18 schools in the Southwest Region to see which programs offered the best value experiences for bio engineering students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

Top 10 Best Biomedical Engineering Schools

Our 2023 rankings named The University of Texas at Austin the best value school in the Southwest Region for biomedical engineering students. UT Austin is a very large public school located in the large city of Austin.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UT Austin are $40,996 per year. After completing their degree, bio engineering graduates from UT Austin carry an average student debtload of $22,500. The average monthly payment of a loan this size is about $205, assuming that the borrower is on a 10-year repayment plan.

UT Austin not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Biomedical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region list.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - College Station. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Biomedical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the medium-sized city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Texas A&M College Station are $38,855 a year. Bio Engineering majors at Texas A&M College Station take out an average of $18,317 in student loans while working on their egree.

Texas A&M College Station not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best Biomedical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region list.

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#3

University of Houston

Houston, TX

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Biomedical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the large city of Houston, UH is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UH are $21,891 a year.

In addition to its great value ranking, UH is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Biomedical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region list.

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Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Texas Tech University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Biomedical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region list. Texas Tech is a fairly large public school located in the city of Lubbock.

Texas Tech undergraduate students pay an average of $24,121 in tuition and fees each year.

Texas Tech excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Biomedical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region list.

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Rice University

Houston, TX

The excellent programs at Rice University helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best biomedical engineering schools in the Southwest Region . Rice is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Houston.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Rice are $52,895 per year. While working on their degree, bio engineering majors at Rice accumulate an average of around $8,000 in student debt.

Rice also made our Best Biomedical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region list, coming in at #1.

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$18,917 Average Tuition & Fees

University of Central Oklahoma did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value schools for biomedical engineering students. It came in at #6 on the list. UCO is a large public school located in the suburb of Edmond.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UCO are $18,917 per year.

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University of Oklahoma Norman Campus came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Biomedical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Located in the medium-sized suburb of Norman, University of Oklahoma is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at University of Oklahoma are $25,116 a year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, University of Oklahoma also is in the top 20% of our Best Biomedical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region ranking.

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Arizona State University - Tempe came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Biomedical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. ASU - Tempe is a very large public school located in the city of Tempe.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at ASU - Tempe are $29,438 a year. The average amount in student loans that bio engineering majors at ASU - Tempe take out is $24,098. When it comes time to repay the loan, graduates who are on a 10-year repayment plan pay an average monthly payment of $220.

ASU - Tempe also claimed a spot on our Best Biomedical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.

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$20,906 Average Tuition & Fees

University of North Texas did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value schools for biomedical engineering students. It came in at #9 on the list. Located in the midsize city of Denton, UNT is a public college with a very large student population.

UNT undergraduate students pay an average of $20,906 in tuition and fees each year. After completing their degree, bio engineering graduates from UNT carry an average student debtload of $27,750.

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$25,243 Average Tuition & Fees

University of New Mexico - Main Campus landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value biomedical engineering programs. UNM is a very large public school located in the city of Albuquerque.

UNM undergraduate students pay an average of $25,243 in tuition and fees each year.

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Best Biomedical Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best biomedical engineering schools for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 983
Arizona 245
Oklahoma 65
New Mexico 18

More Biomedical Engineering Rankings in the Southwest Region

One of 40 majors within the area of study, biomedical engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering 46,178
Electrical Engineering 28,844
Civil Engineering 21,388
Computer Engineering 17,987
Chemical Engineering 12,917

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 18 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 UC Davis College of Engineering.

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