2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene is the 808th most popular major in the country with 211 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 71 occupational health and industrial hygiene graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 54 occupational health and industrial hygiene graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in occupational health and industrial hygiene. That schools that top this list have a program in occupational health and industrial hygiene in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region master’s degree occupational health and industrial hygiene students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene in the Rocky Mountains Region

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Montana Technological University
Butte, Montana

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Montana Technological University landed the #1 spot on the list. Montana Tech is a small public school situated in Butte, Montana. It awarded 39 masters’s occupational health and industrial hygiene degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene at Montana Technological University

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University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

#9 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Utah. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. University of Utah is a large public school situated in Salt Lake City, Utah. It awarded 15 masters’s occupational health and industrial hygiene degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.

Read full report on Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene at University of Utah

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene

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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