2024 Best Sustainability Studies Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

If you plan on getting your master's degree in sustainability studies, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #124 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for sustainability studies students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 150 master's degrees in sustainability studies during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Sustainability Studies School for Your Master's Degree

The sustainability master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality sustainability program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to sustainability studies students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other sustainability studies students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized sustainability studies related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for sustainability studies students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Sustainability Studies Schools

The sustainability school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Sustainability Studies Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Sustainability Studies in the Southeast Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in sustainability studies.

Top Southeast Region Schools for a Master's in Sustainability

1

Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, GA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

5 Annual Graduates

Savannah College of Art and Design is a great decision for individuals pursuing a master's degree in sustainability studies. Located in the city of Savannah, SCAD is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.More information about a master’s in sustainability studies from Savannah College of Art and Design

2

University of South Florida - Main Campus
Tampa, FL

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

74 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat University of South Florida - Main Campus if you want to pursue a master's degree in sustainability studies. Located in the large city of Tampa, USF Tampa is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a master’s in sustainability studies from University of South Florida - Main Campus

3

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, LA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

8 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College if you want to pursue a master's degree in sustainability studies. Louisiana State University is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Baton Rouge.More information about a master’s in sustainability studies from Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Best Sustainability Studies Colleges by State

Explore the best sustainability studies colleges for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	422	118
Georgia	370	8
North Carolina	334	16
Kentucky	268	0
Louisiana	250	8

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Sustainability Studies Related Rankings by Major

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Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to TonyTheTiger. More about our data sources and methodologies.