2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$27,700
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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene is the 808th most popular major in the country with 258 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 82 occupational health and industrial hygiene graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 60 occupational health and industrial hygiene graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in occupational health and industrial hygiene. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their occupational health and industrial hygiene program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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The occupational health and industrial hygiene 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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene Major in the Southwest Region”.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree occupational health and industrial hygiene students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Oklahoma. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene Major in the Southwest Region list. University of Central Oklahoma is a public institution located in Edmond, Oklahoma. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 54 bachelors’s 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 full report on Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene at UCO
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston - Clear Lake. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene Major in the Southwest Region list. UH Clear Lake is a medium-sized school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 6 bachelors’s occupational health and industrial hygiene degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Houston - Clear Lake Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene 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
- *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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