2023 Most Well Attended Sustainability Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Sustainability Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 3,005 people earned their degree in sustainability studies, making the major the 248th most popular in the United States.

Across Virginia, there were 41 sustainability studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 34 sustainability studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,553 and $27,844 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Sustainability Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in sustainability studies. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in sustainability studies.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Sustainability Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia bachelor’s degree sustainability students.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Sustainability Studies in Virginia

1

George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

#5 overall quality in Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Mason University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Sustainability Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s list. Fairfax, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s sustainability degrees to 33 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Sustainability Studies at George Mason University

2

Virginia Wesleyan University
Virginia Beach, Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Wesleyan University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Sustainability Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s list. VWU is a small school located in Virginia Beach, Virginia that handed out 1 bachelors’s sustainability degrees in 2020-2021.

Full VWU Sustainability Studies Report

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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

• *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.

Credits

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