2023 Best Environmental Design Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Plains States Region

With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Plains States Region for Environment Design for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Environmental Design is the 258th most popular major in the country with 741 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, environmental design graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,901 and had an average of $21,331 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 32 environmental design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 27 environmental design graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Plains States Region for Environment Design for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in environmental design. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality environmental design programs as well as strong veteran support.

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

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Plains States Region for Environment Design for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Plains States Region for Environment Design for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Best Environmental Design Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Plains States Region

1

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota

752 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Plains States Region for Environment Design for a Bachelor’s list. UMN Twin Cities is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 bachelors’s environment design degrees to qualified students.

UMN Twin Cities not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Environmental Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list.Among the 52,017 students enrolled at UMN Twin Cities, 752 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 436 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $13,020. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. UMN Twin Cities offers credit for military training for eligible students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Veteran Student Life Report

2

North Dakota State University - Main Campus
Fargo, North Dakota

4 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$56,246 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Plains States Region for Environment Design for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, North Dakota State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Fargo, North Dakota, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s environment design degrees in 2020-2021.

North Dakota State University also made our “Best Environmental Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #2.Of the 12,846 students enrolled at North Dakota State University, 4 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. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

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%.

Full North Dakota State University - Main Campus Veteran Student Life Report

• Best Environmental Design 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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