2023 Most Well Attended Sustainability Science Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Sustainability Science Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Virginia, there were 41 sustainability science graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,709 and $25,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 34 sustainability science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,553 and $27,844 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Sustainability Science Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in sustainability science. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in sustainability science.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Sustainability Science Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia bachelor’s degree sustainability science students.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Sustainability Science in Virginia

1

George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

#5 overall quality in Virginia

$33,709 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,000 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Mason University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Sustainability Science Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Fairfax, Virginia, this large public school awarded 33 degrees to qualified bachelors’s sustainability science students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, 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.

Read more about Sustainability Science at George Mason University

2

Virginia Wesleyan University
Virginia Beach, Virginia

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Sustainability Science Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Wesleyan University landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s sustainability science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Sustainability Science at Virginia Wesleyan University

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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.

Credits

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