2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Education in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Environmental Education is the 1146th most popular major in the country with 96 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 4 environmental education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 environmental education graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Education Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in environmental education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in environmental education.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Education Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Education Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Education in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Bard College
Annandale-On-Hudson, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Education Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Bard College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Annandale-On-Hudson, New York, and it awarded 4 masters’s environmental education degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. 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%.

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The City College of New York
New York, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The City College of New York. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Education Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. The City College of New York is a fairly large school located in New York, New York that handed out 0 masters’s environmental education degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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%.

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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

• *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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