2025 Best Environmental Biology Schools in the Great Lakes Region
3Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
91Environmental Microbiology Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in environmental biology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #599 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of environmental biology. Combined, these schools handed out 91 degrees in environmental biology to qualified students.
Your choice of environmental biology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Environmental Biology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Environmental Biology Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Environmental Biology in the Great Lakes Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the environmental microbiology degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools in Environmental Microbiology
It's hard to beat Michigan State University if you want to pursue a degree in environmental biology. Michigan State is a very large public university located in the city of East Lansing. A Best Colleges rank of #54 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Michigan State is a great university overall.
There were approximately 31 environmental biology students who graduated with this degree at Michigan State in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in environmental biology needs to check out University of Dayton. Located in the medium-sized city of Dayton, UDayton is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. This university ranks 8th out of 91 schools for overall quality in the state of Ohio.
There were about 21 environmental biology students who graduated with this degree at UDayton in the most recent data year.
Ferris State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in environmental biology. Ferris is a moderately-sized public university located in the remote town of Big Rapids. This university ranks 13th out of 56 schools for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were approximately 7 environmental biology students who graduated with this degree at Ferris in the most recent year we have data available.
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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Your choice of environmental biology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Environmental Biology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
