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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Housing & Human Environments

5 Ranked Colleges
134 Degrees Awarded
$17,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Housing & Human Environments Schools for a Bachelor's

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Housing & Human Environments Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

General Housing & Human Environments is the 819th most popular major in the country with 192 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 134 general housing and human environments graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Housing & Human Environments Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in general housing and human environments. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general housing and human environments programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general housing and human environments program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Housing & Human Environments Schools for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Housing & Human Environments Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Housing & Human Environments Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Housing & Human Environments

#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Housing & Human Environments Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Missouri State University - Springfield landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Springfield, Missouri, and it awarded 35 bachelors’s housing and human environments degrees in 2019-2020.

Missouri State also took the #3 spot in our “Best General Housing & Human Environments Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Missouri State University - Springfield is $16,725 for bachelor’s degree housing & human environments students.

Read full report on General Housing & Human Environments at Missouri State

#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Missouri - Columbia. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Housing & Human Environments Schools for a Bachelor’s list. University of Missouri - Columbia is a large public school situated in Columbia, Missouri. It awarded 35 bachelors’s housing and human environments degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Mizzou, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best General Housing & Human Environments Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $16,001 for bachelor’s degree housing & human environments students per year to attend Mizzou.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Mizzou General Housing & Human Environments Report

#3

University of Georgia

Athens, Georgia
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Georgia. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Housing & Human Environments Schools for a Bachelor’s. Located in Athens, Georgia, this large public school handed out 36 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s housing and human environments students in 2019-2020.

UGA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Housing & Human Environments Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $13,649 for Bachelor’s Degree Housing & Human Environments students per year to attend University of Georgia.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Housing & Human Environments at UGA

#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Akron Main Campus. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Housing & Human Environments Schools for a Bachelor’s. Akron, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s housing and human environments degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at University of Akron Main Campus, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best General Housing & Human Environments Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Akron Main Campus is $17,792 for bachelor’s degree housing & human environments students.

Read more about General Housing & Human Environments at University of Akron Main Campus

#4 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Housing & Human Environments Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Ohio University - Athens Campus landed the #5 spot on the list. OHIO Athens is a large public school situated in Athens, Ohio. It awarded 16 bachelors’s housing and human environments degrees in 2019-2020.

OHIO Athens also took the #4 spot in our “Best General Housing & Human Environments Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $22,906 for bachelor’s degree housing & human environments students per year to attend OHIO Athens.

Read full report on General Housing & Human Environments at OHIO Athens

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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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