2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Geosciences (Income $75-$110k)

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 “Best Value Environmental Geosciences Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Environmental Geosciences is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 11 degrees were awarded to students with this major.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 environmental geosciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality environmental geosciences 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 geosciences 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Environmental Geosciences Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Environmental Geosciences Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree environmental geosciences students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Geosciences (Income $75-$110k)

#1

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, Ohio

#1 in overall quality

$29,607 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Environmental Geosciences Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Case Western Reserve University landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Cleveland, Ohio, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s environmental geosciences degrees in 2019-2020.

Case Western not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Environmental Geosciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $29,607 for bachelor’s degree environmental geosciences students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Case Western.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 1.4% 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 Geosciences at Case Western

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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