2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Science in the Rocky Mountains Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 9,274 people earned their degree in environmental science, making the major the 91st most popular in the United States.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 294 environmental science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 environmental science graduates with average earnings and debt of $79,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in environmental science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in environmental science.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The bioenvironmental sciences 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 “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region doctor’s degree bioenvironmental sciences students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Science in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

Montana State University
Bozeman, Montana

#23 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montana State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in Bozeman, Montana, this fairly large public school awarded 5 degrees to qualified doctorate’s bioenvironmental sciences students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% 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%.

Full Montana State University Environmental Science Report

2

University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho

#21 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Idaho. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. U of I is a fairly large school located in Moscow, Idaho that handed out 2 doctorate’s bioenvironmental sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Environmental Science at U of I

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Science

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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Lynn Betts.