2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Natural Sciences for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
57
Degrees Awarded
$27,200
Avg Cost*
Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Natural Sciences for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 2,214 people earned their degree in natural sciences, making the major the 345th most popular in the United States.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 72 natural sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 57 natural sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality natural sciences 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 natural 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 Natural Sciences for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree vets studying natural sciences.
Top 1 Best Natural Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dominican University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Natural Sciences for a Bachelor’s list. Dominican University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in River Forest, Illinois. It awarded 28 bachelors’s natural sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
Dominican U also took the #1 spot in our “Best Natural Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 37 of the 3,189 students enrolled at Dominican University were GI Bill® students, of which 17 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $12,038. To help with additional expenses, 2 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. 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%.
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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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