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2023 Best Natural Sciences Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region

1 Ranked Colleges
72 Degrees Awarded
$27,200 Avg Cost*
Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Natural Sciences

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Natural Sciences” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Natural Sciences is the 208th most popular major in the country with 2,214 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, natural sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $25,745 and had an average of $18,648 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 72 natural sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,252 and $27,000 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent natural sciences programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the natural sciences program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Natural Sciences” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Natural Sciences

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region vets studying natural sciences.

Top 1 Best Natural Sciences Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region

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Dominican University
River Forest, Illinois

Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Natural Sciences that were part of this year’s ranking, Dominican University landed the #1 spot on the list. Dominican U is a small school located in River Forest, Illinois that handed out 28 ’s natural sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Dominican U also took the #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] spot in our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” ranking.According to our most recent data, Dominican U supports 3,189 students, and 37 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 17 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $12,038. On top of their other funding sources, 2 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

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%. 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.

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