2023 Most Well Attended Environmental Geosciences Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Environmental Geosciences Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Environmental Geosciences is the 371st most popular major in the country with 20 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 7 environmental geosciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 environmental geosciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Environmental Geosciences Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in environmental geosciences. To top this list, a school must have a successful environmental geosciences program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Environmental Geosciences Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Environmental Geosciences Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Geosciences in the Great Lakes Region

1

The College of Wooster
Wooster, Ohio

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Environmental Geosciences Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, The College of Wooster landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Wooster, Ohio, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 6 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s environmental geosciences students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% 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 full report on Environmental Geosciences at The College of Wooster

2

Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio

#12 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Case Western Reserve University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Environmental Geosciences Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s list. Cleveland, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s environmental geosciences degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Environmental Geosciences at Case Western

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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.