2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
25
Degrees Awarded
$31,400
Avg Cost*
With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 the Southeast Region for Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 177 people earned their degree in environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism, making the major the 847th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 25 environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism 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 environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism for a Bachelor’s list. This large school is located in Athens, Georgia, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s natural resource recreation and tourism degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UGA, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, University of Georgia supports 39,147 students, and 9 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 3 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $7,402. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. 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%.
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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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