2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Biological/Biosystems Engineering for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$39,300
Avg Cost*
With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Biological/Biosystems Engineering for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Biological/Biosystems Engineering is the 639th most popular major in the country with 410 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 22 biological/biosystems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 biological/biosystems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,720 and $23,024 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality biological/biosystems engineering 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 biological/biosystems engineering program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Biological/Biosystems Engineering for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Biological/Biosystems Engineering for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Biological/Biosystems Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Far Western US Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - San Diego. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Biological/Biosystems Engineering for a Bachelor’s. UCSD is a large public school situated in La Jolla, California. It awarded 22 bachelors’s biological/biosystems engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
UCSD did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Biological/Biosystems Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 112 of the 39,576 students enrolled at UCSD were GI Bill® students, of which 54 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $1,596. During this same period, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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 low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% 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%.
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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).
- 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
- *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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