Sustainability Science is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #98 most popular master's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Sustainability Science Master's Degree Schools in Florida ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 99 master's degrees in sustainability science during the 2022-2023 academic year.
DEBUG: relevant_offers > 0, checking for ESYOH offers
DEBUG: ESYOH filtering - found 3 ESYOH offers with relevance >= 0.8
DEBUG: esyoh_offers count = 3
DEBUG: ESYOH offers found, rendering ESYOH widget
DEBUG: most_relevant_only = true, filtering for most relevant
DEBUG: Found 1 offers with relevance >= 1.0
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on sustainability science students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of sustainability science students who choose to seek a master'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 easy is it for sustainability science to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized sustainability science related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for sustainability science students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Sustainability Science Master's Degree Schools in Florida list, to help you choose the best school for you.
DEBUG: Raw major_slug = "multi-interdisciplinary-studies//sustainability-science"
University of South Florida - Main Campus is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in sustainability science. Located in the large city of Tampa, USF Tampa is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Students who graduate with their master's from the sustainability science program state that they receive average early career wages of $43,302.
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
