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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for environmental design students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 108 bachelor's degrees in environmental design during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Environmental Design School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The environment design bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality environment design program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Early-Career Salaries
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 colleges for environmental design students working on their bachelor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Environmental Design Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.
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 pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in environmental design needs to look into Auburn University. Located in the small city of Auburn, Auburn is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the environment design program report average early career income of $44,929.
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
The environment design bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality environment design program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
