2025 Best Sustainability Studies Schools in California
3Colleges in California
175Sustainability Degrees Awarded
Sustainability Studies is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #248 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of sustainability studies. Combined, these schools handed out 175 degrees in sustainability studies to qualified students.
Your choice of sustainability studies 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 studies 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.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Sustainability Studies Schools in California ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Sustainability Studies in California
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the sustainability degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is difficult to beat University of California - Berkeley if you wish to pursue a degree in sustainability studies. UC Berkeley is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Berkeley. This university ranks 3rd out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 40 sustainability studies students who graduated with this degree at UC Berkeley in the most recent year we have data available.
Stanford University is a wonderful decision for students interested in a degree in sustainability studies. Stanford is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Stanford. A Best Colleges rank of #10 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Stanford is a great university overall.
There were roughly 35 sustainability studies students who graduated with this degree at Stanford in the most recent year we have data available.
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It is difficult to beat University of California - Riverside if you want to pursue a degree in sustainability studies. Located in the large city of Riverside, UCR is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 28th out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were roughly 33 sustainability studies students who graduated with this degree at UCR in the most recent data year.
Sustainability Studies is one of 0 different types of Sustainability Science programs to choose from.
Notes and References
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 studies 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 studies schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
