2025 Best Environmental Health Schools in North Carolina
3Colleges in North Carolina
48Environmental Health Degrees Awarded
A degree in environmental health is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #387 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in North Carolina to determine which ones were the best for environmental health students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 48 degrees in environmental health annually.
The online MPH degree at SNHU gives you a solid grounding in the scientific basis of public health, preparing you to effect change for entire populations.
The environmental health program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Environmental Health rankings. We derive our Best Overall Environmental Health 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 Health Schools in North Carolina ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The online MPH degree at SNHU gives you a solid grounding in the scientific basis of public health, preparing you to effect change for entire populations.
Best Schools for Environmental Health in North Carolina
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the environmental health degree levels they offer.
Top North Carolina Schools in Environmental Health
East Carolina University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in environmental health. Located in the city of Greenville, ECU is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 7th out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were roughly 19 environmental health students who graduated with this degree at ECU in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in environmental health needs to check out University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Located in the city of Chapel Hill, UNC Chapel Hill is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #38 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UNC Chapel Hill is a great university overall.
There were approximately 19 environmental health students who graduated with this degree at UNC Chapel Hill in the most recent year we have data available.
Western Carolina University is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in environmental health. Located in the distant town of Cullowhee, WCU is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 36th out of 93 schools for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were approximately 8 environmental health students who graduated with this degree at WCU in the most recent data year.
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).