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2022 Best Value Forest Sciences and Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

4 Ranked Colleges
106 Degrees Awarded
$22,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Forest Sciences and Biology Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Forest Sciences and Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking.

Forest Sciences & Biology is the 634th most popular major in the country with 389 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 182 forest sciences and biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 106 forest sciences and biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Forest Sciences and Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in forest sciences and biology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality forest sciences and biology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the forest sciences and biology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Forest Sciences and Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree forest sciences and biology students with aid.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Forest Sciences & Biology in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, Mississippi
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Forest Sciences and Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid. Mississippi State University is a public institution located in Mississippi State, Mississippi. The school has a large population, and it awarded 48 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Mississippi State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Forest Sciences & Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $16,173 for southeast region bachelor’s degree forest sciences and biology students with aid per year to attend Mississippi State.

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

Full Mississippi State University Forest Sciences & Biology Report

#2

Auburn University

Auburn, Alabama
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Forest Sciences and Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Auburn University landed the #2 spot on the list. Auburn, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s forest sciences and biology degrees to 39 students in 2019-2020.

Auburn also made our “Best Forest Sciences & Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Auburn University is $24,104 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Forest Sciences and Biology students with aid.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Forest Sciences & Biology at Auburn

#3

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kentucky. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Forest Sciences and Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in Lexington, Kentucky, this large public school handed out 14 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s forest sciences and biology students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree forest sciences and biology students with aid list, UK has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Forest Sciences & Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $17,127 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Forest Sciences and Biology students with aid per year to attend UK.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Forest Sciences & Biology at University of Kentucky

#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sewanee - The University of the South. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Forest Sciences and Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid. Sewanee - The University of the South is located in Sewanee, Tennessee and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 5 bachelors’s forest sciences and biology degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Sewanee, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Forest Sciences & Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $30,474 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Forest Sciences and Biology students with aid per year to attend Sewanee.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Sewanee Forest Sciences & Biology Report

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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).
  • 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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • 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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