2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Southeast Region

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Environmental Studies is the 87th most popular major in the country with 9,899 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,473 environmental studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 environmental studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 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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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree ecosystem studies students.

Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Studies in the Southeast Region

1

Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

#1 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. Duke University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Durham, North Carolina. It awarded 10 doctorate’s ecosystem studies degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Environmental Studies at Duke

2

Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, Tennessee

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tennessee Technological University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Southeast Region. This medium-sized school is located in Cookeville, Tennessee, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s ecosystem studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Environmental Studies at Tennessee Tech University

3

Arkansas State University - Main Campus
Jonesboro, Arkansas

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arkansas State University - Main Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Jonesboro, Arkansas, this fairly large public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified doctorate’s ecosystem studies students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full A-State Environmental Studies Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Studies

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

• *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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Lynn Betts.