2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Physical Sciences for a Bachelor’s
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Degrees Awarded
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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 Southeast Region for Physical Sciences for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 3,823 people earned their degree in physical science, making the major the 179th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 239 physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 21 physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent physical science 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 physical science program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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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 Southeast Region for Physical Sciences for a Bachelor’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Physical Sciences for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree vets studying physical sciences.
Top 1 Best Physical Science Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emory University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Physical Sciences for a Bachelor’s. Emory University is a fairly large school located in Atlanta, Georgia that handed out 4 bachelors’s physical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
Emory not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Physical Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 1 of the 13,997 students enrolled at Emory were GI Bill® students, of which 0 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $0. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. 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%.
Full Emory University Veteran Student Life Report
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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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