2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Design Major in the Great Lakes Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Design Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Environmental Design & Architecture is the 505th most popular major in the country with 730 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 46 environmental design and architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 41 environmental design and architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Design Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in environmental design and architecture. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their environmental design and architecture program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Design Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree environmental design students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Design & Architecture in the Great Lakes Region

1

Bowling Green State University - Main Campus
Bowling Green, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bowling Green State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Design Major in the Great Lakes Region list. BGSU is a fairly large school located in Bowling Green, Ohio that handed out 39 bachelors’s environmental design degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Bowling Green State University - Main Campus Environmental Design & Architecture Report

2

Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana

Top 15% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ball State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Design Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This large school is located in Muncie, Indiana, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s environmental design degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Ball State Environmental Design & Architecture Report

3

Miami University - Oxford
Oxford, Ohio

#21 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Miami University - Oxford. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Design Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Miami University - Oxford is a public institution located in Oxford, Ohio. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Environmental Design & Architecture at Miami University - Oxford

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Design & Architecture

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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