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2022 Best Value Ecosystem Studies Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid

5 Ranked Colleges
418 Degrees Awarded
$38,200 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Ecosystem Studies Schools for a Master's in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Ecosystem Studies Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking.

Environmental Studies is the 85th most popular major in the country with 9,869 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the New England region, there were 1,342 environmental studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 418 environmental studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,606 and $42,101 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Ecosystem Studies Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in environmental studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent environmental studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the environmental studies program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Ecosystem Studies Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree ecosystem studies students with aid.

Top 5 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Studies in the New England Region (With Aid)

#1

Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Yale University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Ecosystem Studies Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid. Yale is a fairly large school located in New Haven, Connecticut that handed out 150 masters’s ecosystem studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Yale also made our “Best Environmental Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Yale are $44,500, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Environmental Studies at Yale University

#2

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Ecosystem Studies Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Harvard University landed the #2 spot on the list. Cambridge, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s ecosystem studies degrees to 195 students in 2019-2020.

Harvard also made our “Best Environmental Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at Harvard University are $50,654, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Environmental Studies at Harvard

#3

Plymouth State University

Plymouth, New Hampshire

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Plymouth State University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Ecosystem Studies Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid. This small school is located in Plymouth, New Hampshire, and it awarded 3 masters’s ecosystem studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Plymouth State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #0 on our “Best Environmental Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Plymouth State are $14,550, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Environmental Studies at Plymouth State University

#4

Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tufts University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Ecosystem Studies Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in Medford, Massachusetts, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 5 degrees to qualified masters’s ecosystem studies students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our new england region master’s degree ecosystem studies students with aid list, Tufts has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Environmental Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Tufts are $55,168.

Full Tufts Environmental Studies Report

#5

Northeastern University

Boston, Massachusetts
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northeastern University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Ecosystem Studies Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid. Northeastern University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Boston, Massachusetts. It awarded 7 masters’s ecosystem studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Northeastern did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Environmental Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Northeastern University are $25,558, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Environmental Studies at Northeastern

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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