2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Design in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Environmental Design is the 255th most popular major in the country with 728 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, environmental design graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $41,900 and had an average of $23,950 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 149 environmental design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $14,250 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 environmental design graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,970 and $95,025 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great environmental design programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the environmental design program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree environment design students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Design in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$17,530 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Tech University landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas Tech University is a large public school situated in Lubbock, Texas. It awarded 3 doctorate’s environment design degrees in 2019-2020.

Texas Tech also took the #1 spot in our “Best Environmental Design Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Texas Tech are $17,530.

Read full report on Environmental Design at Texas Tech

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Design (With Aid)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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