2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Landscape
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Ranked Colleges
68
Degrees Awarded
$25,600
Avg Cost*
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 Great Lakes Region for Landscape” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Landscape Architecture is the 247th most popular major in the country with 905 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, landscape architecture graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $48,957 and had an average of $24,403 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 68 landscape architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,998 and $25,271 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent landscape architecture programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the landscape architecture program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Landscape
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region vets studying landscape.
Top 1 Best Landscape Architecture Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ball State University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Landscape. This large school is located in Muncie, Indiana, and it awarded 22 ’s landscape degrees in 2020-2021.
Ball State also made our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” list, coming in at #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS].According to our most recent data, Ball State University supports 21,597 students, and 455 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 182 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $5,124. In addition to receiving other benefits, 29 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Ball State University offers credit for military training for eligible students.
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%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Ball State]](/colleges/ball-state-university/student-life/veterans/)
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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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