2022 Best Value Geography and Environmental Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Geography and Environmental Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Geography and Environmental Studies is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 28 degrees were awarded to students with this major.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 geography and environmental studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Geography and Environmental Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in geography and environmental studies. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality geography and environmental studies 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 geography and environmental studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Geography and Environmental Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Geography and Environmental Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geography and Environmental Studies (With Aid)

#1

Northeastern State University

Tahlequah, Oklahoma

#2 in overall quality

$9,994 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Geography and Environmental Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Northeastern State University landed the #1 spot on the list. NSU is a medium-sized school located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma that handed out 4 bachelors’s geography and environmental studies degrees in 2019-2020.

NSU also made our “Best Geography and Environmental Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend Northeastern State University is $9,994 for Bachelor’s Degree Geography and Environmental Studies students with aid.

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#2

University of Maryland - Baltimore County

Baltimore, Maryland

#1 in overall quality

$19,082 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maryland - Baltimore County. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Geography and Environmental Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. This fairly large school is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s geography and environmental studies degrees in 2019-2020.

UMBC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Geography and Environmental Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Maryland - Baltimore County is $19,082 for Bachelor’s Degree Geography and Environmental Studies students with aid.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Geography and Environmental Studies at University of Maryland - Baltimore County

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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