2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sustainability Major in the Southwest Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sustainability Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Sustainability Studies is the 248th most popular major in the country with 3,745 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 222 sustainability studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 sustainability studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,912 and $102,180 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sustainability Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in sustainability studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their sustainability studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sustainability Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree sustainability students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Sustainability Studies in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sustainability Major in the Southwest Region. University of Oklahoma is a public institution located in Norman, Oklahoma. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Sustainability Studies at University of Oklahoma
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sustainability Major in the Southwest Region. ASU - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 4 doctorate’s sustainability degrees in 2021-2022.
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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full ASU - Tempe Sustainability Studies Report
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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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