2024 Best Environmental Science Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region
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Colleges in the New England Region
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Master's Degrees
a master's degree in
environmental science is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #146 out of 1172 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 5 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Environmental Science Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 91 master's degrees in environmental science during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Environmental Science School for Your Master's Degree
The bioenvironmental sciences master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality bioenvironmental sciences 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 take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host 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 much a school focuses on environmental science students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of environmental science students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
- 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 environmental science related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for environmental science students working on their master's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Environmental Science Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.