by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 682 environmental studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 129 environmental studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in environmental studies. That schools that top this list have a program in environmental studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region master’s degree ecosystem studies students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Colorado University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Gunnison, Colorado is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s ecosystem studies degrees to 29 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado Boulder. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. Located in Boulder, Colorado, this large public school awarded 76 degrees to qualified masters’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 school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Montana. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. Missoula, Montana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s ecosystem studies degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Environmental Studies at The University of Montana
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wyoming. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. University of Wyoming is a fairly large public school situated in Laramie, Wyoming. It awarded 8 masters’s ecosystem studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Environmental Studies at University of Wyoming
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Utah State University landed the #5 spot on the list. Utah State University is a large school located in Logan, Utah that handed out 5 masters’s ecosystem studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Environmental Studies at Utah State University
Colorado State University - Fort Collins came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ecosystem Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. Colorado State is a large school located in Fort Collins, Colorado that handed out 0 masters’s ecosystem studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
(NRCS_Photo_Gallery).jpg){kind=link}