2023 Best Biological/Biosystems Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region
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Ranked Colleges
17
Degrees Awarded
$28,200
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Biological/Biosystems Engineering for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 410 people earned their degree in biological/biosystems engineering, making the major the 639th most popular in the United States.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 17 biological/biosystems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 biological/biosystems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent biological/biosystems engineering programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the biological/biosystems engineering program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Biological/Biosystems Engineering for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Biological/Biosystems Engineering for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Biological/Biosystems Engineering for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Biological/Biosystems Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oakland University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Biological/Biosystems Engineering for a Bachelor’s list. Oakland is located in Rochester Hills, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 17 bachelors’s biological/biosystems engineering degrees to qualified students.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Oakland, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Biological/Biosystems Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, Oakland University supports 18,552 students, and 323 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 197 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $11,271. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Oakland University does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
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%.
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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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