2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Design in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$35,200
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environment Design Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Southwest region, there were 126 environmental design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $21,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 environmental design graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environment Design Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in environmental design. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in environmental design.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environment Design Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree environment design students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Design in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Austin. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environment Design Major in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in Austin, Texas, and it awarded 11 masters’s environment design degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Environmental Design at The University of Texas at Austin
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environment Design Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #2 spot on the list. ASU - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 59 masters’s environment design degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Arizona State University - Tempe Environmental Design Report
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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
- *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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