2024 Best Environmental Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region
2Colleges in the Far Western US Region
51Doctor's Degrees
a doctor's degree in environmental studies is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #135 out of 862 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the Far Western US Region to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of environmental studies. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 51 doctor's degrees in environmental studies during the 2020-2021 academic year.
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on environmental studies students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of environmental studies students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized environmental studies related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for environmental studies students working on their doctor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Environmental Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Featured Environmental Studies Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Develop a broad-based interdisciplinary skill set to solve complex environmental problems like climate change, alternative energy and sustainability with a specialized online degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
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).