2022 Best Value Energy and Environmental Policy Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Energy and Environmental Policy Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

With 20 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, energy and environmental policy is the most popular major in the United States.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 energy and environmental policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality energy and environmental policy 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 energy and environmental policy program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Energy and Environmental Policy Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree energy and environmental policy students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Energy and Environmental Policy (Income $0-$30k)

#1

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Syracuse, New York

#1 in overall quality

$24,990 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Energy and Environmental Policy Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry landed the #1 spot on the list. Syracuse, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s energy and environmental policy degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

ESF not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Energy and Environmental Policy Master’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at ESF are $24,990, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Energy and Environmental Policy Report

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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