2022 Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

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In 2019-2020, 1,254 people earned their degree in environmental health, making the major the 409th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 52 environmental health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 environmental health graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in environmental health. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great environmental health programs and 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree environmental health students.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Health in the Southwest Region

#1

East Central University

Ada, Oklahoma

#2 in overall quality

$10,334 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend East Central University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. East Central University is located in Ada, Oklahoma and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 14 bachelors’s environmental health degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree environmental health students list, ECU has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Environmental Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $10,334 for southwest region bachelor’s degree environmental health students per year to attend East Central University.

Read full report on Environmental Health at East Central University

#2

Texas Southern University

Houston, Texas

#3 in overall quality

$19,430 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Southern University landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s environmental health degrees in 2019-2020.

TSU also took the #3 spot in our “Best Environmental Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $19,430 for southwest region bachelor’s degree environmental health students per year to attend TSU.

Read more about Environmental Health at TSU

#3

Baylor University

Waco, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$36,039 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baylor University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Located in Waco, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 5 degrees to qualified bachelors’s environmental health students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree environmental health students list, Baylor has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Environmental Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Baylor is $36,039 for southwest region bachelor’s degree environmental health students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Environmental Health at Baylor

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Health

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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Article 25 Flickr.

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