by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Environmental Health is the 387th most popular major in the country with 1,344 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 258 environmental health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 90 environmental health graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 10 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in environmental health. That schools that top this list have a program in environmental health in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree environmental health students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Carolina University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southeast Region. Western Carolina University is a fairly large school located in Cullowhee, North Carolina that handed out 21 bachelors’s environmental health degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Western Carolina University Environmental Health Report
Out of the 10 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi Valley State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Itta Bena, Mississippi, this small public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s environmental health students in 2020-2021.
Full Mississippi Valley State University Environmental Health Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Kentucky University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southeast Region. Eastern is a public institution located in Richmond, Kentucky. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend East Tennessee State University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southeast Region. ETSU is a fairly large school located in Johnson City, Tennessee that handed out 9 bachelors’s environmental health degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southeast Region list. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 19 bachelors’s environmental health degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
With a ranking of #6, Western Kentucky University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southeast Region list. WKU is located in Bowling Green, Kentucky and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 bachelors’s environmental health degrees to qualified students.
University of Georgia ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southeast Region list. UGA is a large school located in Athens, Georgia that handed out 12 bachelors’s environmental health degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
East Carolina University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southeast Region ranking. ECU is located in Greenville, North Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 bachelors’s environmental health degrees to qualified students.
Benedict College came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Benedict College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Columbia, South Carolina. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Environmental Health at Benedict College
Tulane University of Louisiana landed the #9 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southeast Region ranking. New Orleans, Louisiana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s environmental health degrees to 29 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.
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