2025 Best Sustainability Science Schools in Massachusetts
3Colleges in Massachusetts
388Sustainability Science Degrees Awarded
$46,440Avg Early-Career Salary
When it comes to popularity, sustainability science sits in the middle of the road, ranking #176 out of 395 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Sustainability Science Schools in Massachusetts ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 388 degrees in sustainability science to qualified students.
Your choice of sustainability science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for sustainability science schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Sustainability Science Schools in Massachusetts list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Sustainability Science in Massachusetts
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the sustainability science degree levels they offer.
Top Massachusetts Schools in Sustainability Science
Harvard University is a great decision for students interested in a degree in sustainability science. Harvard is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Cambridge. A Best Colleges rank of #4 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Harvard is a great university overall.
There were approximately 296 sustainability science students who graduated with this degree at Harvard in the most recent data year.
Tufts University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in sustainability science. Tufts is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Medford. This university ranks 7th out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were approximately 18 sustainability science students who graduated with this degree at Tufts in the most recent data year.
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University of Massachusetts Amherst is a wonderful option for students interested in a degree in sustainability science. Located in the small city of Amherst, UMass Amherst is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 10th out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were roughly 62 sustainability science students who graduated with this degree at UMass Amherst 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).
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Your choice of sustainability science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for sustainability science schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
