2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Design in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 728 people earned their degree in environmental design, making the major the 255th most popular in the United States. 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 Plains States region, there were 36 environmental design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 environmental design graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Design in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

#1

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$25,948 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Environment Design Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Iowa State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Iowa State is a large public school situated in Ames, Iowa. It awarded 4 masters’s environment design degrees in 2019-2020.

Iowa State also took the #1 spot in our “Best Environmental Design Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Iowa State are $25,948.

Read full report on Environmental Design at Iowa State University

• Best Value Master’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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