2022 Best Value Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Environmental Biology is the 661st most popular major in the country with 442 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 33 environmental biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 environmental biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,970 and $95,025 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great environmental biology programs and cost less that 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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Best Value Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Biology in the Southwest Region

#1

Arizona State University - Tempe

Tempe, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$27,048 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Tempe, Arizona, this large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s environmental microbiology students in 2019-2020.

ASU - Tempe not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Environmental Biology Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Arizona State University - Tempe are $27,048.

Read more about Environmental Biology at Arizona State University - Tempe

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Biology

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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