2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Botany for a Master’s

Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Botany for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 445 people earned their degree in botany, making the major the 612th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 108 botany graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Botany for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in botany. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality botany programs as well as strong veteran support.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the botany program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Botany for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Botany for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Best Botany Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region

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North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina

1,102 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Carolina State University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Botany for a Master’s. NC State is a large public school situated in Raleigh, North Carolina. It awarded 4 masters’s botany degrees in 2020-2021.

NC State also made our “Best Botany Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1.According to our most recent data, NC State supports 36,042 students, and 1,102 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 493 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $5,886. To help with additional expenses, 27 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. NC State does offer credit for military training for eligible students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.

Full North Carolina State University Veteran Student Life Report

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Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

1,170 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Botany for a Master’s. This large school is located in Mississippi State, Mississippi, and it awarded 11 masters’s botany degrees in 2020-2021.

Mississippi State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Botany Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.Among the 22,986 students enrolled at Mississippi State, 1,170 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 676 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $5,684. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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• Best Botany Master’s Degree Colleges for 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.