2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Biology in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking.

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 38 environmental biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 24 environmental biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in environmental biology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great environmental biology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the environmental biology program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree environmental microbiology students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Biology in the Southeast Region

#1

Liberty University

Lynchburg, Virginia

#2 in overall quality

$28,903 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Liberty University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Lynchburg, Virginia, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s environmental microbiology degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Liberty University, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Environmental Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $28,903 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Microbiology students per year to attend Liberty University.

Full Liberty University Environmental Biology Report

#2

Wingate University

Wingate, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$18,759 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wingate University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Wingate, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s environmental microbiology degrees to 11 students in 2019-2020.

Wingate not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Environmental Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Wingate is $18,759 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Microbiology students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Environmental Biology at Wingate

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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

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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