When it comes to popularity, a bachelor's degree in environmental design sits in the middle of the road, ranking #191 out of 363 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.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Environmental Design Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 64 bachelor's degrees in environmental design during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to environmental design students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of environmental design students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt environmental design students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized environmental design related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for environmental design students working on their bachelor's degree.
The environment design school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Environmental Design Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in environmental design needs to look into University of Hawaii at Manoa. Located in the large city of Honolulu, UH Manoa is a public university with a large student population.
Soon after graduating, environment design bachelor's recipients typically earn about $37,849 in their early careers.
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
