2025 Best Environmental Science Schools in Virginia
3Colleges in Virginia
241Bioenvironmental Sciences Degrees Awarded
Ranked #91 in popularity, environmental science is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Environmental Science Schools in Virginia ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 241 degrees in environmental science annually.
Your choice of environmental science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for environmental science schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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Best Schools for Environmental Science in Virginia
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the bioenvironmental sciences degree levels they offer.
University of Virginia - Main Campus is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in environmental science. University of Virginia is a very large public university located in the suburb of Charlottesville. A Best Colleges rank of #35 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means University of Virginia is a great university overall.
There were about 90 environmental science students who graduated with this degree at University of Virginia in the most recent data year.
Virginia Tech is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in environmental science. Virginia Tech is a very large public school located in the city of Blacksburg. This school ranks 2nd out of 57 colleges for overall quality in the state of Virginia.
There were about 37 environmental science students who graduated with this degree at Virginia Tech in the most recent year we have data available.
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George Mason University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in environmental science. Located in the large suburb of Fairfax, GMU is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 4th out of 57 colleges for overall quality in the state of Virginia.
There were approximately 60 environmental science students who graduated with this degree at GMU in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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Your choice of environmental science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for environmental science schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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