2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Soil Sciences in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Soil Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Soil Sciences is the 284th most popular major in the country with 417 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, soil sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $39,200 and had an average of $19,304 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 122 soil sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,867 and $21,713 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 soil sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,428 and $121,375 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Soil Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in soil sciences. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great soil sciences programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the soil sciences program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Soil Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Soil Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree soil sciences students with aid.

Top 3 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Soil Sciences in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana

#1 in overall quality

$28,794 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Purdue University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Soil Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. Located in West Lafayette, Indiana, this large public school handed out 12 degrees to qualified doctorate’s soil sciences students in 2019-2020.

Purdue not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Soil Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Purdue are $28,794, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Purdue Soil Sciences Report

#2

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Madison, Wisconsin

#2 in overall quality

$25,523 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Soil Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. University of Wisconsin - Madison is located in Madison, Wisconsin and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 doctorate’s soil sciences degrees to qualified students.

UW - Madison did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Soil Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UW - Madison are $25,523, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Soil Sciences at University of Wisconsin - Madison

#3

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan

#2 in overall quality

$37,056 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Michigan State University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Soil Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. East Lansing, Michigan is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s soil sciences degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

Michigan State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Soil Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Michigan State are $37,056.

Read more about Soil Sciences at Michigan State

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Soil Sciences (With Aid)

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).
• 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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• 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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