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. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 1,344 people earned their degree in environmental health, making the major the 387th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 56 environmental health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 environmental health graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree environmental health students.
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 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southwest Region. East Central University is located in Ada, Oklahoma and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 11 bachelors’s environmental health degrees to qualified students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Southern University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southwest Region. Texas Southern University is located in Houston, Texas and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 8 bachelors’s environmental health degrees to qualified students.
Read more about Environmental Health at Texas Southern University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baylor University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southwest Region list. Waco, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s environmental health degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.
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 low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southwest Region list. This fairly large school is located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s environmental health degrees in 2020-2021.
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