2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Soil Sciences is the 292nd most popular major in the country with 409 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , soil sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $43,848 and had an average of $20,196 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 42 soil sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,050 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 soil sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in soil sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their soil sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Soil Sciences in the Southwest Region

1

Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Stillwater, Oklahoma

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, this large public school awarded 11 degrees to qualified masters’s soil sciences students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Oklahoma State University - Main Campus Soil Sciences Report

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Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, Texas

#7 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in College Station, Texas, and it awarded 5 masters’s soil sciences degrees in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Soil Sciences at Texas A&M University - College Station

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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