2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Sustainability Science in the Middle Atlantic Region

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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 the Middle Atlantic region, there were 627 sustainability science graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,392 and $26,244 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 sustainability science graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,076 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in sustainability science. That schools that top this list have a program in sustainability science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region doctor’s degree sustainability science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Sustainability Science in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, New York

#6 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia University in the City of New York. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Columbia is a large school located in New York, New York that handed out 5 doctorate’s sustainability science degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Sustainability Science at Columbia University in the City of New York

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Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York

Top 15% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rochester Institute of Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Rochester, New York, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 1 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s sustainability science students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Rochester Institute of Technology Sustainability Science Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Sustainability Science

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.

Credits

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