2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Soil Sciences in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 406 people earned their degree in soil sciences, making the major the 292nd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, soil sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $43,848 and had an average of $20,406 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 42 soil sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,050 and $19,750 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 soil sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,218 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in soil sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in soil sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Soil Sciences in the Southwest Region

1

Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Stillwater, Oklahoma

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, this large public school awarded 7 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s soil sciences students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Soil Sciences at Oklahoma State University - Main Campus

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Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, Texas

#7 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Southwest Region. Texas A&M University - College Station is a large school located in College Station, Texas that handed out 2 doctorate’s soil sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Soil Sciences at Texas A&M College Station

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Soil Sciences

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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