You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Tech. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Horticultural Science for a Doctorate. Blacksburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s horticultural science degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
Virginia Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Horticultural Science Doctor’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list.Our most recent data shows that 119 of the 37,024 students enrolled at Virginia Tech were GI Bill® students, of which 108 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $12,314. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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