2022 Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Carolina

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Carolina” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 2,802 people earned their degree in general environmental engineering, making the major the 226th most popular in the United States.

Across South Carolina, there were 44 general environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 general environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general environmental engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general environmental engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The environmental engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Carolina”.

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Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Carolina.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Environmental Engineering in South Carolina

#1

Clemson University

Clemson, South Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$20,008 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Clemson University landed the #1 spot on the list. Clemson, South Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s environmental engineering degrees to 27 students in 2019-2020.

Clemson also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in South Carolina” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Clemson is $20,008 for South Carolina Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Engineering students.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 3.1% 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 full report on General Environmental Engineering at Clemson University

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Alesia Goosic.

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