If you're seeking a Master's Degree in soil sciences, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #239 one in the country in terms of popularity.As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for soil sciences students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 49 master's degrees in soil sciences during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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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 master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master'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 master'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 master'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 schools for soil sciences students working on their master's degree.
The soil sciences school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Soil Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region.
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University of Florida is a good option for students interested in a master's degree in soil sciences. UF is a fairly large public university located in the city of Gainesville.
Master's students who receive their degree from the soil sciences program make about $61,827 in their early career salary.
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).
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