2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Geography and Environmental Studies for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
38
Degrees Awarded
$28,700
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 for Geography and Environmental Studies for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 40 people earned their degree in geography and environmental studies, making the major the 1150th most popular in the United States.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 38 geography and environmental studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great geography and environmental studies programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the geography and environmental studies program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly for Geography and Environmental Studies for a Bachelor’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Geography and Environmental Studies for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Geography and Environmental Studies for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Geography and Environmental Studies Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Geography and Environmental Studies for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland - Baltimore County landed the #1 spot on the list. Baltimore, Maryland is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s geography and environmental studies degrees to 15 students in 2020-2021.
UMBC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Geography and Environmental Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking.Of the 13,497 students enrolled at UMBC, 53 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 30 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $9,027. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. 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%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at University of Maryland - Baltimore County]](/colleges/university-of-maryland-baltimore-county/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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