2023 Most Well Attended Ecosystem Studies Major in Connecticut for a Master’s

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Ecosystem Studies Major in Connecticut for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

Across Connecticut, there were 228 environmental studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 94 environmental studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,328 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Ecosystem Studies Major in Connecticut for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in environmental studies. To top this list, a school must have a successful environmental studies program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Ecosystem Studies Major in Connecticut for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut master’s degree ecosystem studies students.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Studies in Connecticut

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Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

#1 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Yale University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Ecosystem Studies Major in Connecticut for a Master’s list. Yale is located in New Haven, Connecticut and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 94 masters’s ecosystem studies degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Yale University Environmental Studies Report

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Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, Connecticut

#17 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Connecticut State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Ecosystem Studies Major in Connecticut for a Master’s. Located in New Haven, Connecticut, this medium-sized public school handed out 13 diplomas to qualified masters’s ecosystem studies students in 2020-2021.

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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

• *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.