2024 Best Environmental Studies Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
4Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
129Master's Degrees
If you pursue a master's degree in environmental studies, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #116 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for environmental studies students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 129 master's degrees in environmental studies to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Environmental Studies School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of environmental studies for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
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 master'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 complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for environmental studies students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Environmental Studies Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Environmental Studies in the Rocky Mountains Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in environmental studies.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Master's in Ecosystem Studies
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).