2023 Most Well Attended Environmental Health Major in the Far Western US Region for a Bachelor’s

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Environmental Health Major in the Far Western US Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Far Western US region, there were 141 environmental health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 85 environmental health graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,720 and $23,024 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Environmental Health Major in the Far Western US Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in environmental health. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular environmental health programs in the United States.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Environmental Health Major in the Far Western US Region for a Bachelor’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Health in the Far Western US Region

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California State University - Northridge
Northridge, California

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend California State University - Northridge. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Environmental Health Major in the Far Western US Region for a Bachelor’s. Located in Northridge, California, this large public school awarded 63 degrees to qualified bachelors’s environmental health students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% 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%.

Read more about Environmental Health at California State University - Northridge

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University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

#11 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Environmental Health Major in the Far Western US Region for a Bachelor’s. UW Seattle is located in Seattle, Washington and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 22 bachelors’s environmental health degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Environmental Health at UW Seattle

• Most Popular 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.

Credits

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