2024 Best Sustainability Science Schools in the Plains States Region
3Colleges in the Plains States Region
189Sustainability Science Degrees Awarded
Sustainability Science isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #176 in popularity out of 395 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for sustainability science students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 189 degrees in sustainability science during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Your choice of sustainability science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Sustainability Science School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Sustainability Science Schools in the Plains States Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Sustainability Science in the Plains States Region
The schools below may not offer all types of sustainability science degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Plains States Region Schools in Sustainability Science
Any student who is interested in sustainability science needs to look into Washington University in St Louis. Located in the suburb of Saint Louis, WUSTL is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #17 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means WUSTL is a great university overall.
There were roughly 16 sustainability science students who graduated with this degree at WUSTL in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat Iowa State University if you want to pursue a degree in sustainability science. Located in the small city of Ames, Iowa State is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 1st out of 40 colleges for overall quality in the state of Iowa.
There were approximately 26 sustainability science students who graduated with this degree at Iowa State in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Iowa is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a degree in sustainability science. Iowa is a very large public university located in the city of Iowa City. This university ranks 2nd out of 40 colleges for overall quality in the state of Iowa.
There were approximately 73 sustainability science students who graduated with this degree at Iowa in the most recent year we have data available.
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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Your choice of sustainability science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Sustainability Science School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
