2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Biology in the Southwest Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Microbiology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 466 people earned their degree in environmental biology, making the major the 599th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 25 environmental biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 environmental biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Microbiology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in environmental biology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their environmental biology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Microbiology Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree environmental microbiology students.
Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Biology in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Nazarene University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Microbiology Major in the Southwest Region list. Bethany, Oklahoma is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s environmental microbiology degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Environmental Biology at SNU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Arizona University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Microbiology Major in the Southwest Region list. Flagstaff, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s environmental microbiology degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Environmental Biology at Northern Arizona University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Microbiology Major in the Southwest Region. Texas A&M College Station is a large public school situated in College Station, Texas. It awarded 9 bachelors’s environmental microbiology degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Environmental Biology at Texas A&M University - College Station
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Microbiology Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Edward’s University landed the #4 spot on the list. Saint Edward’s University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Austin, Texas. It awarded 0 bachelors’s environmental microbiology degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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