2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Sustainability for a Doctorate
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Sustainability for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Sustainability Studies is the 248th most popular major in the country with 3,005 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 583 sustainability studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent sustainability studies 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 sustainability studies program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. 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 Sustainability for a Doctorate” 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 Sustainability for a Doctorate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Sustainability for a Doctorate”.
Top 1 Best Sustainability Studies Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Sustainability for a Doctorate. UIUC is a large school located in Champaign, Illinois that handed out 3 doctorate’s sustainability degrees in 2020-2021.
UIUC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Sustainability Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign supports 52,679 students, and 10 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 0 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $0. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. 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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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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