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

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 Louisiana” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across Louisiana, there were 46 environmental science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 environmental science graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,232 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in Louisiana” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in environmental science. That schools that top this list have a program in environmental science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

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

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

1

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#2 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in Louisiana list. Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s bioenvironmental sciences degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Environmental Science at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

2

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana

#5 overall quality in Louisiana

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioenvironmental Sciences Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Louisiana at Lafayette landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Lafayette, Louisiana, this fairly large public school handed out 16 degrees to qualified masters’s bioenvironmental sciences students in 2020-2021.

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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.