2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2021-2022, 1,332 people earned their degree in environmental health, making the major the 387th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 42 environmental health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 environmental health graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in environmental health. That schools that top this list have a program in environmental health in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree environmental health students.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Health in the Southwest Region

1

East Central University
Ada, Oklahoma

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Central University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southwest Region list. This small school is located in Ada, Oklahoma, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s environmental health degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Environmental Health at ECU

2

Texas Southern University
Houston, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Southern University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southwest Region. Texas Southern University is a medium-sized public school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 2 bachelors’s environmental health degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Environmental Health at TSU

3

Baylor University
Waco, Texas

#17 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baylor University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southwest Region list. Baylor is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Waco, Texas. It awarded 0 bachelors’s environmental health degrees in 2021-2022.

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 undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% 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 Environmental Health at Baylor University

4

New Mexico State University - Main Campus
Las Cruces, New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Health Major in the Southwest Region list. NMSU Main Campus is a fairly large public school situated in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It awarded 0 bachelors’s environmental health degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full New Mexico State University - Main Campus Environmental Health Report

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.

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