2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Soil Sciences for a Bachelor’s

With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Soil Sciences for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Great Lakes region, there were 89 soil sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,430 and $19,228 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 57 soil sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Soil Sciences for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in soil sciences. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great soil sciences programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the soil sciences program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Soil Sciences for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Soil Sciences for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 3 Best Soil Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region

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Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, Illinois

1 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Soil Sciences for a Bachelor’s list. Southern Illinois University Carbondale is located in Carbondale, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 bachelors’s soil sciences degrees to qualified students.

SIUC also took the #2 spot in our “Best Soil Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking.Of the 11,366 students enrolled at SIUC, 1 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 0 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $0. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

Full SIUC Veteran Student Life Report

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University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
Stevens Point, Wisconsin

343 GI Bill® Students**

#3 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Soil Sciences for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point landed the #2 spot on the list. UW - Stevens Point is located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 20 bachelors’s soil sciences degrees to qualified students.

UW - Stevens Point did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Soil Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 343 of the 8,302 students enrolled at UW - Stevens Point were GI Bill® students, of which 129 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $6,195. To help with additional expenses, 2 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. UW - Stevens Point does offer credit for military training for eligible students.

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Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

2 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Michigan State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Soil Sciences for a Bachelor’s list. Michigan State University is located in East Lansing, Michigan and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 22 bachelors’s soil sciences degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Michigan State, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Soil Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 2 of the 49,695 students enrolled at Michigan State University were GI Bill® students, of which 1 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $14,686. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, 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 [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Michigan State]](/colleges/michigan-state-university/student-life/veterans/)

• Best Soil Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

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).
• Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
• 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.
• **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
• 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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