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2022 Best Value Sustainability Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $75-$110k

4 Ranked Colleges
62 Degrees Awarded
$28,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Sustainability Science Schools for a Bachelor's in the New England Region For Those Making $75-$110k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Sustainability Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Sustainability Science is the 190th most popular major in the country with 2,645 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, sustainability science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $42,011 and had an average of $27,458 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 223 sustainability science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 62 sustainability science graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Sustainability Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in sustainability science. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality sustainability science programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the sustainability science program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Sustainability Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Sustainability Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Sustainability Science (Income $75-$110k) in the New England Region

#1

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, Massachusetts
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Sustainability Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $75-$110k. University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public institution located in Amherst, Massachusetts. The school has a large population, and it awarded 31 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UMass Amherst did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Sustainability Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. It costs about $24,051 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Sustainability Science students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend UMass Amherst.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The low student loan default rate of 2.8% 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 more about Sustainability Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Sustainability Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Hampshire - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Durham, New Hampshire, and it awarded 22 bachelors’s sustainability science degrees in 2019-2020.

UNH also took the #2 spot in our “Best Sustainability Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of New Hampshire - Main Campus is $25,668 for new england region bachelor’s degree sustainability science students whose families make $75-$110k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Sustainability Science at UNH

#3

Providence College

Providence, Rhode Island
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Sustainability Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Providence College landed the #3 spot on the list. This small school is located in Providence, Rhode Island, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s sustainability science degrees in 2019-2020.

Providence not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Sustainability Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. It costs about $30,551 for new england region bachelor’s degree sustainability science students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Providence.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full Providence Sustainability Science Report

#4

Bentley University

Waltham, Massachusetts
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bentley University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Sustainability Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $75-$110k. Waltham, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s sustainability science degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Bentley did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Sustainability Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Bentley University is $34,455 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Sustainability Science students whose families make $75-$110k.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 2.1% 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 Sustainability Science at Bentley

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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

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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