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

4 Ranked Colleges
48 Degrees Awarded
$10,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Environmental Engineering is the 166th most popular major in the country with 2,802 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, environmental engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $52,600 and had an average of $23,573 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 76 environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,400 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 48 environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in environmental engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality environmental engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the 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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Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in the Plains States Region

#1

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Minneapolis, Minnesota
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Minneapolis, Minnesota is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s environmental engineering degrees to 16 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMN Twin Cities, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is $7,266 for plains states region bachelor’s degree environmental engineering students whose families make $0-$30k.

The low student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Environmental Engineering Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Missouri University of Science and Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Rolla, Missouri is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s environmental engineering degrees to 21 students in 2019-2020.

Missouri University of Science and Technology did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $10,755 for plains states region bachelor’s degree environmental engineering students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Missouri University of Science and Technology.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Environmental Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology

#3

University of North Dakota

Grand Forks, North Dakota
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Dakota landed the #3 spot on the list. University of North Dakota is a fairly large school located in Grand Forks, North Dakota that handed out 2 bachelors’s environmental engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UND also made our “Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #4. The yearly cost to attend University of North Dakota is $11,092 for plains states region bachelor’s degree environmental engineering students whose families make $0-$30k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Environmental Engineering at University of North Dakota

#4

University of Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Iowa landed the #4 spot on the list. University of Iowa is a public institution located in Iowa City, Iowa. The school has a large population, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Iowa, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Iowa is $12,975 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Engineering students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 3.5% 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%.

Full University of Iowa Environmental Engineering Report

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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.

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