2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major 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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 soil sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s 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. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in soil sciences.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Southwest Region

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

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

1

Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Stillwater, Oklahoma

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Southwest Region list. OSU is a large public school situated in Stillwater, Oklahoma. It awarded 7 masters’s soil sciences degrees 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 OSU

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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 Master’s Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Southwest Region. Texas A&M University - College Station is a large public school situated in College Station, Texas. It awarded 4 masters’s soil sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Soil Sciences at Texas A&M College Station

• Most Focused Master’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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