2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Chemistry Major
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Environmental Chemistry is the 1213th most popular major in the country with 25 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 environmental chemistry graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Chemistry Major” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in environmental chemistry. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in environmental chemistry.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Chemistry Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree environmental chemistry students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Chemistry
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Chemistry Major list. ESF is a small school located in Syracuse, New York that handed out 2 masters’s environmental chemistry degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%.
Read more about Environmental Chemistry at ESF
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Chemistry Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgetown University landed the #2 spot on the list. Georgetown is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 masters’s environmental chemistry degrees to qualified students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Environmental Chemistry at Georgetown
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Environmental Chemistry Major list. UW - Madison is a large school located in Madison, Wisconsin that handed out 3 masters’s environmental chemistry degrees in 2020-2021.
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%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full University of Wisconsin - Madison Environmental Chemistry Report
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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.