You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cornell University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Botany for a Doctorate. Cornell University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Ithaca, New York. It awarded 6 doctorate’s botany degrees in 2020-2021.
Cornell did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Botany Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list.Among the 23,620 students enrolled at Cornell, 2 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 2 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $12,780. On top of their other funding sources, 2 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Cornell]](/colleges/cornell-university/student-life/veterans/)