2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Iowa for Biological Science for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
66
Degrees Awarded
$24,400
Avg Cost*
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in Iowa for Biological Science for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Biological & Physical Science is the 38th most popular major in the country with 30,075 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, biological and physical science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,402 and had an average of $15,005 in loans still to pay off.
Across Iowa, there were 77 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 66 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,980 and $30,839 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality biological and physical science programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the biological and physical science program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Iowa for Biological Science for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Iowa for Biological Science for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Biological & Physical Science Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Iowa
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Iowa for Biological Science for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Northern Iowa landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Northern Iowa is a medium-sized public school situated in Cedar Falls, Iowa. It awarded 7 bachelors’s biological science degrees in 2020-2021.
UNI also took the #1 spot in our “Best Biological & Physical Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Iowa” ranking.Of the 9,507 students enrolled at University of Northern Iowa, 251 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 99 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $6,033. During this same period, 1 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
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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.