2023 Best Biometry/Biometrics Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly for Biometry/Biometrics for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 148 people earned their degree in biometry/biometrics, making the major the 926th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 56 biometry/biometrics graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Biometry/Biometrics for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biometry/biometrics. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great biometry/biometrics programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the biometry/biometrics program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly for Biometry/Biometrics for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Most Veteran Friendly for Biometry/Biometrics for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Biometry/Biometrics for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Best Biometry/Biometrics Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

1

Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

2 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

$12,780 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cornell University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Biometry/Biometrics for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Ithaca, New York, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 34 degrees to qualified bachelors’s biometry/biometrics students in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Cornell, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Biometry/Biometrics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking.According to our most recent data, Cornell University supports 23,620 students, and 2 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 2 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $12,780. On top of their other funding sources, 2 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Cornell University Veteran Student Life Report

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West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia

1,033 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend West Virginia University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Biometry/Biometrics for a Bachelor’s list. This large school is located in Morgantown, West Virginia, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s biometry/biometrics degrees in 2020-2021.

WVU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Biometry/Biometrics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list.According to our most recent data, WVU supports 26,269 students, and 1,033 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 458 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,599. On top of their other funding sources, 66 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

[Read full report on veteran student life at WVU]](/colleges/west-virginia-university/student-life/veterans/)

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

Footnotes

• *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.

Credits

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