2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Biology (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 442 people earned their degree in environmental biology, making the major the 661st most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 33 environmental biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 environmental biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality environmental biology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

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

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Biology (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Arizona State University - Tempe

Tempe, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$27,048 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Located in Tempe, Arizona, this large public school awarded 2 degrees to qualified masters’s environmental microbiology students in 2019-2020.

ASU - Tempe also took the #1 spot in our “Best Environmental Biology Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Arizona State University - Tempe are $27,048, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Arizona State University - Tempe Environmental Biology Report

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Biology (Income $75-$110k)

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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