2022 Best Value Ecology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Ecology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 1,130 people earned their degree in ecology, making the major the 384th most popular in the United States.

Across Washington, there were 25 ecology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 ecology graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,202 and $21,977 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Ecology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in ecology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great ecology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the ecology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Ecology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Ecology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington

The colleges and universities below are the best for washington bachelor’s degree ecology students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ecology in Washington

#1

Central Washington University

Ellensburg, Washington

#1 in overall quality

$15,397 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Ecology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington that were part of this year’s ranking, Central Washington University landed the #1 spot on the list. CWU is a fairly large public school situated in Ellensburg, Washington. It awarded 17 bachelors’s ecology degrees in 2019-2020.

CWU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Ecology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Washington” list. The yearly cost to attend CWU is $15,397 for washington bachelor’s degree ecology students.

Full CWU Ecology Report

#2

Seattle Pacific University

Seattle, Washington

#2 in overall quality

$26,505 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Ecology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington that were part of this year’s ranking, Seattle Pacific University landed the #2 spot on the list. Seattle, Washington is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s ecology degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

SPU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Ecology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Washington” list. It costs about $26,505 for washington bachelor’s degree ecology students per year to attend Seattle Pacific University.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Ecology at Seattle Pacific University

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ecology in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ecology

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Ernst Haeckel.

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