by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in Iowa” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Sustainability Science is the 176th most popular major in the country with 3,005 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, sustainability science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,827 and had an average of $23,160 in loans still to pay off.
Across Iowa, there were 114 sustainability science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $19,050 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 sustainability science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,980 and $30,839 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in Iowa” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in sustainability science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their sustainability science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in Iowa” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for iowa bachelor’s degree sustainability science students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Maharishi International University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in Iowa list. MIU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Fairfield, Iowa. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Iowa State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Iowa State University is a public institution located in Ames, Iowa. The school has a large population, and it awarded 22 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Graceland University - Lamoni. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in Iowa. Lamoni, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s sustainability science degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
Full Graceland University - Lamoni Sustainability Science Report
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