2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in Pennsylvania

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Environmental Health is the 387th most popular major in the country with 1,344 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 25 environmental health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 environmental health graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,741 and $27,572 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in Pennsylvania” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in environmental health. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their environmental health program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in Pennsylvania”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Health in Pennsylvania

1

Thiel College
Greenville, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Thiel College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in Pennsylvania list. Greenville, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s environmental health degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Full Thiel College Environmental Health Report

2

West Chester University of Pennsylvania
West Chester, Pennsylvania

#21 overall quality in Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, West Chester University of Pennsylvania landed the #2 spot on the list. West Chester University of Pennsylvania is a fairly large public school situated in West Chester, Pennsylvania. It awarded 14 bachelors’s environmental health degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Full West Chester University of Pennsylvania Environmental Health Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Health in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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