2025 Best Soil Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

If you're seeking a Master's Degree in soil sciences, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #239 one in the country in terms of popularity.As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for soil sciences students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 49 master's degrees in soil sciences during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to soil sciences students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of soil sciences students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt soil sciences students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized soil sciences related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for soil sciences students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Soil Sciences Schools

The soil sciences school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Soil Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Soil Sciences in the Southeast Region

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for soil sciences students seeking a a master's degree.

Top Southeast Region Schools for a Master's in Soil Sciences

1

University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

34 Annual Graduates

$61,827 Median Starting Salary

University of Florida is a good option for students pursuing a master's degree in soil sciences. UF is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Gainesville.

Master's graduates who receive their degree from the soil sciences program earn around $61,827 in their early career salary.

More information about a master’s in soil sciences from University of Florida

2

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC

10 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a master's degree in soil sciences has to take a look at North Carolina State University. Located in the large city of Raleigh, NC State is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in soil sciences from North Carolina State University

Best Soil Sciences Colleges by State

Explore the best soil sciences colleges for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	208	16
North Carolina	178	8
Tennessee	166	1

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Rankings in Majors Related to Soil Sciences

One of 18 majors within the Agriculture & Agriculture Operations area of study, Soil Sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.

Soil Sciences Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Soil Science & Agronomy, General	44
Soil Chemistry & Physics	5

Majors Similar to Soil Sciences

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Plant Sciences	165
Veterinary Biomedical and Clinical Sciences	144
Animal Science	143
Agricultural Economics & Business	107
General Agriculture	100
Agricultural Public Services	97
Other Agriculture	89
Food Science Technology	80
Agricultural Production	77

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Bdx. More about our data sources and methodologies.