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2022 Best Value Soil Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

4 Ranked Colleges
53 Degrees Awarded
$34,300 Avg Salary
Best Value Soil Sciences Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Soil Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Soil Sciences is the 284th most popular major in the country with 417 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, soil sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $39,200 and had an average of $19,304 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 115 soil sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,300 and $24,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 53 soil sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Soil Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in soil sciences. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality soil sciences programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the soil sciences program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The soil sciences school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Soil Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k”.

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Best Value Soil Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Soil Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Soil Sciences (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

#1

University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Soil Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Florida landed the #1 spot on the list. Gainesville, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s soil sciences degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

UF also took the #2 spot in our “Best Soil Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $8,528 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Soil Sciences students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend UF.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on Soil Sciences at University of Florida

#2

University of Georgia

Athens, Georgia
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Georgia. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Soil Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k. University of Georgia is a public institution located in Athens, Georgia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UGA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Soil Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $14,748 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Soil Sciences students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend University of Georgia.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UGA Soil Sciences Report

#3

Clemson University

Clemson, South Carolina
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Clemson University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Soil Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Clemson is a large school located in Clemson, South Carolina that handed out 12 bachelors’s soil sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Clemson, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Soil Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $18,971 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Soil Sciences students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Clemson.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Clemson Soil Sciences Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Soil Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Knoxville, Tennessee is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s soil sciences degrees to 35 students in 2019-2020.

UT Knoxville not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Soil Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville is $23,211 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Soil Sciences students whose families make $48-$75k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full UT Knoxville Soil Sciences Report

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Notes and References

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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