2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Sustainability Studies in the Southwest Region

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 “Best Value Sustainability Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Sustainability Studies is the 294th most popular major in the country with 2,645 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 151 sustainability studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 90 sustainability studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Sustainability Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in sustainability studies. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality sustainability studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the sustainability studies program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Sustainability Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Sustainability Studies in the Southwest Region

#1

University of Oklahoma Norman Campus

Norman, Oklahoma

#2 in overall quality

$21,145 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Sustainability Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Norman, Oklahoma is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s sustainability degrees to 17 students in 2019-2020.

University of Oklahoma not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Sustainability Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus is $21,145 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Sustainability students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Oklahoma Norman Campus Sustainability Studies Report

#2

The University of Texas at Austin

Austin, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$18,023 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Sustainability Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Austin landed the #2 spot on the list. UT Austin is a large school located in Austin, Texas that handed out 61 bachelors’s sustainability degrees in 2019-2020.

UT Austin also made our “Best Sustainability Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for UT Austin is $18,023 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Sustainability students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read more about Sustainability Studies at The University of Texas at Austin

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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

• *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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