2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Biological/Biosystems Engineering for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$37,500
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Southwest Region for Biological/Biosystems Engineering for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Biological/Biosystems Engineering is the 639th most popular major in the country with 410 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 28 biological/biosystems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 biological/biosystems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 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.
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 Southwest Region for Biological/Biosystems Engineering for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Biological/Biosystems Engineering for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Biological/Biosystems Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Biological/Biosystems Engineering for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s biological/biosystems engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
University of Arizona also made our “Best Biological/Biosystems Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1.According to our most recent data, University of Arizona supports 45,601 students, and 2,131 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 1,478 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,880. During this same period, 31 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. University of Arizona does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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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