2023 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Health in the Southwest Region

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

Across the Southwest region, there were 56 environmental health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 environmental health graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,218 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Environmental Health Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Southwest Region for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree environmental health students.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Health in the Southwest Region

1

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Environmental Health Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate. Located in Tucson, Arizona, this large public school awarded 5 degrees to qualified doctorate’s environmental health students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read more about Environmental Health at University of Arizona

2

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, Texas

#2 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Environmental Health Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston landed the #2 spot on the list. UTHealth is a medium-sized public school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 1 doctorate’s environmental health degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Environmental Health at UTHealth

• Most Popular Doctor’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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