2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Science in Connecticut

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 Master’s Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in Connecticut” 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 Connecticut, there were 92 environmental science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 29 environmental science graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,328 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in Connecticut” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in environmental science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in environmental science.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in Connecticut

The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut master’s degree bioenvironmental sciences students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Science in Connecticut

1

Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

#1 overall quality in Connecticut

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, Yale University landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in New Haven, Connecticut, and it awarded 21 masters’s bioenvironmental sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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 Environmental Science at Yale

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University of New Haven
West Haven, Connecticut

#8 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Haven. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in Connecticut list. Located in West Haven, Connecticut, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 8 diplomas to qualified masters’s bioenvironmental sciences students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Environmental Science at University of New Haven

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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.