2022 Best Value Geography and Environmental Studies Schools 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 “Best Value Geography and Environmental Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Geography and Environmental Studies is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 28 degrees were awarded to students with this major.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 geography and environmental studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Geography and Environmental Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in geography and environmental studies. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality geography and environmental studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the geography and environmental studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Geography and Environmental Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Geography and Environmental Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geography and Environmental Studies

#1

Northeastern State University

Tahlequah, Oklahoma

#2 in overall quality

$9,994 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northeastern State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Geography and Environmental Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Northeastern State University is a public institution located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

NSU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Geography and Environmental Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $9,994 for Bachelor’s Degree Geography and Environmental Studies students per year to attend Northeastern State University.

Full NSU Geography and Environmental Studies Report

#2

University of Maryland - Baltimore County

Baltimore, Maryland

#1 in overall quality

$19,082 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maryland - Baltimore County. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Geography and Environmental Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s. Baltimore, Maryland is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s geography and environmental studies degrees to 14 students in 2019-2020.

UMBC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Geography and Environmental Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $19,082 for bachelor’s degree geography and environmental studies students per year to attend University of Maryland - Baltimore County.

The low student loan default rate of 4.3% 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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Geography and Environmental Studies at University of Maryland - Baltimore County

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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