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2022 Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k

2 Ranked Colleges
32 Degrees Awarded
$10,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Bachelor's in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Environmental Design is the 255th most popular major in the country with 728 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, environmental design graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $41,900 and had an average of $23,950 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 36 environmental design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 environmental design graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in environmental design. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent environmental design programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the environmental design program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree environment design students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Design (Income $30-$48k) in the Plains States Region

#1

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Minneapolis, Minnesota
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this large public school handed out 15 degrees to qualified bachelors’s environment design students in 2019-2020.

UMN Twin Cities also made our “Best Environmental Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend UMN Twin Cities is $8,418 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Environment Design students whose families make $30-$48k.

The low student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.

Read full report on Environmental Design at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Dakota State University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. North Dakota State University is located in Fargo, North Dakota and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 17 bachelors’s environment design degrees to qualified students.

North Dakota State University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Environmental Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for North Dakota State University - Main Campus is $12,544 for plains states region bachelor’s degree environment design students whose families make $30-$48k.

The low student loan default rate of 3.1% 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 more about Environmental Design at North Dakota State University - Main Campus

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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).
  • 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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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