2025 Best Environmental Studies Schools in Vermont
3Colleges in Vermont
225Ecosystem Studies Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in environmental studies, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #87 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Environmental Studies Schools in Vermont ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 225 degrees in environmental studies annually.
The ecosystem studies program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Environmental Studies rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for environmental studies schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Environmental Studies Schools in Vermont ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the ecosystem studies degree levels they offer.
Any student who is interested in environmental studies has to take a look at University of Vermont. UVM is a large public university located in the small city of Burlington. This university ranks 4th out of 9 colleges for overall quality in the state of Vermont.
There were approximately 105 environmental studies students who graduated with this degree at UVM in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Middlebury College if you want to pursue a degree in environmental studies. Located in the town of Middlebury, Middlebury is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #93 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Middlebury is a great college overall.
There were roughly 62 environmental studies students who graduated with this degree at Middlebury in the most recent year we have data available.
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Develop a broad-based interdisciplinary skill set to solve complex environmental problems like climate change, alternative energy and sustainability with a specialized online degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
It is difficult to beat Saint Michael's College if you want to pursue a degree in environmental studies. Saint Michael's is a small private not-for-profit college located in the midsize suburb of Colchester. This college ranks 5th out of 9 colleges for overall quality in the state of Vermont.
There were roughly 19 environmental studies students who graduated with this degree at Saint Michael's in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The ecosystem studies program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Environmental Studies rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for environmental studies schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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