2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Microbiology Major in Colorado

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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Microbiology Major in Colorado” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 466 people earned their degree in environmental biology, making the major the 599th most popular in the United States.

Across Colorado, there were 107 environmental biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 environmental biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,172 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Microbiology Major in Colorado” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in environmental biology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in environmental biology.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Microbiology Major in Colorado

The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado master’s degree environmental microbiology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Biology in Colorado

1

Regis University
Denver, Colorado

#9 overall quality in Colorado

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Regis University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Microbiology Major in Colorado list. Located in Denver, Colorado, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified masters’s environmental microbiology students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Environmental Biology at Regis University

2

Colorado State University - Fort Collins
Fort Collins, Colorado

#4 overall quality in Colorado

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Microbiology Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado State University - Fort Collins landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Fort Collins, Colorado, this large public school awarded 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s environmental microbiology students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Colorado State Environmental Biology Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Biology in the Rocky Mountains Region
• Most Focused Master’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

• *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.

Credits

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