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Biotechnology Schools in San Diego

San Diego, CA (population: 1,309,749) has two biotechnology schools within its city limits. San Diego State University, the highest ranked school in the city with a biotechnology program, has a total student population of 32,817. It is the 706th highest ranked school in the USA and the 44th highest in the state of California (#1 is University of California-Los Angeles).

Biotechnology students from San Diego schools who go on to become biotechnologists, bioengineers, biomedical engineers, biophysicists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 166,860 people working as medical and clinical laboratory technologists alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $55,620. Also, Biochemists and biophysicists make on average $88,550 per year and there are about 22,860 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos area alone, there are 1,420 employed biochemists and biophysicists earning an average salary of $81,740. Medical and clinical laboratory technologists in this area earn $66,490/yr and there are 780 employed.

San Diego lies in San Diego county, which is one of the 57 counties in California. Overall, the San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos area has 1,279,330 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $23/hr average worker wage, and a $48,860 average annual salary. Thus, about 1 out of every 1000 jobs in San Diego are held by medical and clinical laboratory technologists, and 1/1000 are held by biochemists and biophysicists.

Of the 2 biotechnology schools in San Diego, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Coleman University comes out as the most expensive ($33,247/yr) for biotechnology students, with San Diego State University as the lowest, reported at only $7,762/yr.

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