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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Sustainability Major in Colorado for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 3,005 people earned their degree in sustainability studies, making the major the 248th most popular in the United States.

Across Colorado, there were 85 sustainability studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 56 sustainability studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,670 and $29,027 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Sustainability Major in Colorado for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in sustainability studies. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in sustainability studies.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Sustainability Major in Colorado for a Bachelor’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Sustainability Studies in Colorado

1

Colorado Mountain College
Glenwood Springs, Colorado

#19 overall quality in Colorado

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colorado Mountain College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Sustainability Major in Colorado for a Bachelor’s. Located in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, this medium-sized public school awarded 39 degrees to qualified bachelors’s sustainability students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Sustainability Studies at Colorado Mountain College

2

University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, Colorado

#10 overall quality in Colorado

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Northern Colorado. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Sustainability Major in Colorado for a Bachelor’s list. Greeley, Colorado is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s sustainability degrees to 17 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Sustainability Studies at University of Northern Colorado

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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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