2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Studies in the Great Lakes Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 9,899 people earned their degree in environmental studies, making the major the 87th most popular in the United States.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,381 environmental studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 environmental studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,305 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in environmental studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their environmental studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree ecosystem studies students.
Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Studies in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region. UW - Madison is a public institution located in Madison, Wisconsin. The school has a large population, and it awarded 8 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Wisconsin - Madison Environmental Studies Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the #2 spot on the list. SIUC is a public institution located in Carbondale, Illinois. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Environmental Studies at SIUC
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Cincinnati - Main Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region. Cincinnati, Ohio is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s ecosystem studies degrees to 49 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Environmental Studies at University of Cincinnati - Main Campus
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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