2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Environmental Science (Income $30-$48k) in the Southeast 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 Bioenvironmental Sciences Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 9,339 people earned their degree in environmental science, making the major the 90th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 2,038 environmental science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 46 environmental science graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great environmental science programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the environmental science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Bioenvironmental Sciences Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Bioenvironmental Sciences Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree bioenvironmental sciences students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Environmental Science (Income $30-$48k) in the Southeast Region

#1

St Petersburg College

Clearwater, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$3,182 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend St Petersburg College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Bioenvironmental Sciences Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. Located in Clearwater, Florida, this large public school awarded 14 degrees to qualified associates’s bioenvironmental sciences students in 2019-2020.

SPC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Environmental Science Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend St Petersburg College is $3,182 for southeast region associate degree bioenvironmental sciences students whose families make $30-$48k.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Environmental Science (Income $30-$48k)

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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