2022 Best Value Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Environmental Biology is the 661st most popular major in the country with 442 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 38 environmental biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 24 environmental biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in environmental biology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great environmental biology 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 biology program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree environmental microbiology students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Biology (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Wingate University

Wingate, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$15,876 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Wingate University landed the #1 spot on the list. Wingate University is located in Wingate, North Carolina and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 11 bachelors’s environmental microbiology degrees to qualified students.

Wingate did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Environmental Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $15,876 for southeast region bachelor’s degree environmental microbiology students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Wingate.

The low student loan default rate of 3.9% 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 Biology at Wingate

#2

Liberty University

Lynchburg, Virginia

#2 in overall quality

$27,896 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Environmental Microbiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Liberty University landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Lynchburg, Virginia, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s environmental microbiology degrees in 2019-2020.

Liberty University also made our “Best Environmental Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $27,896 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Microbiology students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Liberty University.

Read full report on Environmental Biology at Liberty University

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Biology (Income $0-$30k)

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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