2022 Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region
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Environmental Health is the 409th most popular major in the country with 1,254 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.
Across the Southeast region, there were 295 environmental health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 126 environmental health graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in environmental health. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality environmental health programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the environmental health program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree environmental health students.
Top 7 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Health in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Carolina University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Located in Cullowhee, North Carolina, this fairly large public school awarded 16 degrees to qualified bachelors’s environmental health students in 2019-2020.
WCU also took the #4 spot in our “Best Environmental Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $13,722 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Health students per year to attend Western Carolina University.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend East Carolina University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. East Carolina University is a large public school situated in Greenville, North Carolina. It awarded 9 bachelors’s environmental health degrees in 2019-2020.
ECU also took the #3 spot in our “Best Environmental Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend East Carolina University is $15,844 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Health students.
Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Georgia landed the #3 spot on the list. UGA is a public institution located in Athens, Georgia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 36 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
UGA also took the #2 spot in our “Best Environmental Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $13,649 for southeast region bachelor’s degree environmental health students per year to attend UGA.
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%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Kentucky University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Eastern Kentucky University is a fairly large school located in Richmond, Kentucky that handed out 22 bachelors’s environmental health degrees in 2019-2020.
Eastern not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #7 on our “Best Environmental Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Eastern Kentucky University is $14,149 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Health students.
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Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Kentucky University landed the #5 spot on the list. WKU is a public institution located in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
WKU also made our “Best Environmental Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #5. The yearly cost to attend WKU is $11,962 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Health students.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. UNC Chapel Hill is a large school located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina that handed out 21 bachelors’s environmental health degrees in 2019-2020.
UNC Chapel Hill did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Environmental Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $12,352 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Health students per year to attend UNC Chapel Hill.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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East Tennessee State University ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. East Tennessee State University is located in Johnson City, Tennessee and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s environmental health degrees to qualified students.
ETSU also took the #6 spot in our “Best Environmental Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend ETSU is $14,332 for southeast region bachelor’s degree environmental health students.
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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%.
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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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