2022 Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across Texas, there were 32 environmental health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 environmental health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas

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

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Health in Texas

#1

Texas Southern University

Houston, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$19,430 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Southern University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas list. Located in Houston, Texas, this medium-sized public school handed out 6 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s environmental health students in 2019-2020.

TSU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Environmental Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list. It costs about $19,430 for Texas Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Health students per year to attend Texas Southern University.

Read more about Environmental Health at TSU

#2

Baylor University

Waco, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$36,039 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Baylor University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Environmental Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas. Baylor University is located in Waco, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 5 bachelors’s environmental health degrees to qualified students.

Baylor did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Environmental Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list. The yearly cost to attend Baylor University is $36,039 for Texas Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Health students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Environmental Health at Baylor

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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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