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2022 Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k

4 Ranked Colleges
44 Degrees Awarded
$8,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor's in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Environmental Health is the 409th most popular major in the country with 1,254 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 51 environmental health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 44 environmental health graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,111 and $23,874 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in environmental health. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent environmental health programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the environmental health 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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Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Health (Income $0-$30k) in the Rocky Mountains Region

#3 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Brigham Young University - Idaho landed the #1 spot on the list. BYU - I is a large school located in Rexburg, Idaho that handed out 15 bachelors’s environmental health degrees in 2019-2020.

BYU - I also took the #3 spot in our “Best Environmental Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend BYU - I is $2,637 for Rocky Mountains Region Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Health students whose families make $0-$30k.

The low student loan default rate of 3.2% 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 Health at BYU - I

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brigham Young University - Provo. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Brigham Young University - Provo is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Provo, Utah. It awarded 10 bachelors’s environmental health degrees in 2019-2020.

BYU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Environmental Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. It costs about $8,834 for Rocky Mountains Region Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Health students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend BYU.

The student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Environmental Health at BYU

#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colorado State University - Fort Collins. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Colorado State University - Fort Collins is a large school located in Fort Collins, Colorado that handed out 18 bachelors’s environmental health degrees in 2019-2020.

Colorado State also made our “Best Environmental Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for Colorado State is $11,831 for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree environmental health students whose families make $0-$30k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The low student loan default rate of 3.0% 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 full report on Environmental Health at Colorado State University - Fort Collins

#4

Boise State University

Boise, Idaho
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Boise State University landed the #4 spot on the list. Boise State University is a large public school situated in Boise, Idaho. It awarded 1 bachelors’s environmental health degrees in 2019-2020.

Boise State also made our “Best Environmental Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list, coming in at #4. It costs about $12,000 for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree environmental health students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Boise State University.

Full Boise State University Environmental Health Report

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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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