2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Science in North Carolina

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in North Carolina” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Environmental Science is the 91st most popular major in the country with 9,274 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across North Carolina, there were 403 environmental science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 environmental science graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,744 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in North Carolina” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in environmental science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their environmental science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in North Carolina

The colleges and universities below are the best for north carolina doctor’s degree bioenvironmental sciences students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Science in North Carolina

1

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

#2 overall quality in North Carolina

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill landed the #1 spot on the list. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a large school located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina that handed out 8 doctorate’s bioenvironmental sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Environmental Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2

North Carolina A & T State University
Greensboro, North Carolina

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, North Carolina A & T State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Greensboro, North Carolina, this fairly large public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s bioenvironmental sciences students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Environmental Science at NC A&T

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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

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