by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environment Design Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Environmental Design is the 258th most popular major in the country with 741 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, environmental design graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,901 and had an average of $21,331 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 46 environmental design graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,015 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 41 environmental design 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 Environment Design Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in environmental design. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their environmental design program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environment Design Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bowling Green State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environment Design Major in the Great Lakes Region. This fairly large school is located in Bowling Green, Ohio, and it awarded 39 bachelors’s environment design degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Environmental Design at Bowling Green State University - Main Campus
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ball State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environment Design Major in the Great Lakes Region. Ball State University is a large school located in Muncie, Indiana that handed out 2 bachelors’s environment 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%.
Read full report on Environmental Design at Ball State University
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 Environment Design Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Miami University - Oxford is a fairly large school located in Oxford, Ohio that handed out 0 bachelors’s environment design degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Environmental Design at Miami University - Oxford
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