2024 Best Environmental Design Schools in the Plains States Region

If you're seeking a degree in environmental design, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #258 one in the country in terms of popularity.This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.

In 2024, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Environmental Design Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 32 degrees in environmental design during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Degree-Level Rankings

• Best Overall Environmental Design Schools List

Pick Your Environmental Design Degree Level

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 Environmental Design Schools in the Plains States Region list to help you make the college decision. If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.

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If you want to learn more about how we derive our rankings, see College Factual's Methodology.

Best Schools for Environmental Design in the Plains States Region

If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the environment design degrees they offer, see the list below.

Top Plains States Region Schools in Environment Design

1

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN

Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in environmental design. UMN Twin Cities is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Minneapolis.More information about a degree in environmental design from University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

2

North Dakota State University - Main Campus
Fargo, ND

Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type

North Dakota State University - Main Campus is a good decision for students interested in a degree in environmental design. Located in the medium-sized city of Fargo, North Dakota State University is a public university with a large student population.More information about a degree in environmental design from North Dakota State University - Main Campus

Best Environmental Design Colleges by State

Explore the best environmental design schools for a specific state in the Plains States Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Minnesota	284	14
Iowa	264	5
North Dakota	210	13

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Rankings in Majors Related to Environment Design

Environmental Design is one of 8 different types of Architecture & Related Services programs to choose from.

Environment Design Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Environmental Design & Architecture	32

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Most Popular Majors Related to Environment Design

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Architectural Sciences & Technology	475
General Architecture	378
Urban & Regional Planning	118
Landscape Architecture	53
Interior Architecture	40
Architectural History	16
Architecture (Other)	7

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Notes and References

• 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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More about our data sources and methodologies.