2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Education Major in the Far Western US Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Education Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2021-2022, 91 people earned their degree in environmental education, making the major the 1146th most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 3 environmental education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 environmental education graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,948 and $20,385 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Education Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in environmental education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in environmental education.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Education Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region bachelor’s degree environmental education students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Education in the Far Western US Region

1

University of Nevada - Reno
Reno, Nevada

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nevada - Reno. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Education Major in the Far Western US Region list. University of Nevada - Reno is a large public school situated in Reno, Nevada. It awarded 3 bachelors’s environmental education degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UNR Environmental Education Report

2

Whitworth University
Spokane, Washington

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Education Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Whitworth University landed the #2 spot on the list. Whitworth University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Spokane, Washington. It awarded 0 bachelors’s environmental education degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Environmental Education at Whitworth

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

• *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.

Credits

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