by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in Colorado” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Environmental Studies is the 87th most popular major in the country with 9,899 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Colorado, there were 392 environmental studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 280 environmental studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,670 and $29,027 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in Colorado” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in environmental studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in environmental studies.
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The ecosystem studies school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in Colorado”.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado bachelor’s degree ecosystem studies students.
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Colorado University landed the #1 spot on the list. Western is a small school located in Gunnison, Colorado that handed out 33 bachelors’s ecosystem studies degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Fort Lewis College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in Colorado list. FLC is located in Durango, Colorado and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 30 bachelors’s ecosystem studies degrees to qualified students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colorado College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in Colorado. Colorado College is a small school located in Colorado Springs, Colorado that handed out 20 bachelors’s ecosystem studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Naropa University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in Colorado. Boulder, Colorado is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s ecosystem studies degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado Boulder. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in Colorado list. Located in Boulder, Colorado, this large public school awarded 188 degrees to qualified bachelors’s ecosystem studies students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% 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%.
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Regis University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in Colorado ranking, coming in at #6. This medium-sized school is located in Denver, Colorado, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s ecosystem studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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University of Denver landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in Colorado ranking. University of Denver is a private not-for-profit institution located in Denver, Colorado. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.6% 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%.
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