2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in Georgia

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in Georgia” 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 Georgia, there were 103 environmental science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 environmental science graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,186 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in Georgia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Master’s Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in Georgia”.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in Georgia”.

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

1

Columbus State University
Columbus, Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Columbus State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in Georgia. Located in Columbus, Georgia, this medium-sized public school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified masters’s bioenvironmental sciences students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Environmental Science at CSU

2

Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

#2 overall quality in Georgia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Emory University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in Georgia list. Emory University is a fairly large school located in Atlanta, Georgia that handed out 2 masters’s bioenvironmental sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Environmental Science at Emory University

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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.