You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a Bachelor's Degree in soil sciences. It is ranked #250 out of 363 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
College Factual looked at 10 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Soil Sciences Bachelor's Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 203 bachelor's degrees in soil sciences during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great Soil Sciences School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The soil sciences bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to soil sciences students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of soil sciences students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt soil sciences students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized soil sciences related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for soil sciences students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Soil Sciences Bachelor's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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It is difficult to beat Michigan State University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in soil sciences. Michigan State is a fairly large public university located in the small city of East Lansing.
Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the soil sciences program make an average of $50,770 for their early career.
It's hard to beat Colorado State University - Fort Collins if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in soil sciences. Located in the city of Fort Collins, Colorado State is a public university with a very large student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the soil sciences program report average early career income of $46,287.
UT Knoxville is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Knoxville.
Soil Sciences bachelor's degree recipients from The University of Tennessee - Knoxville get an earnings boost of approximately $5,168 over the typical earnings of soil sciences majors.
Located in the distant town of Carbondale, SIUC is a public university with a large student population.
Those soil sciences students who get their bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois University Carbondale receive $4,922 more than the standard soil sciences graduate.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
The soil sciences bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
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