When it comes to popularity, a bachelor's degree in sustainability science sits in the middle of the road, ranking #155 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.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Florida to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of sustainability science. Combined, these schools handed out 199 bachelor's degrees in sustainability science to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Sustainability Science School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The sustainability science bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
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
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to sustainability science students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other sustainability science students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt sustainability science 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 sustainability science related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for sustainability science students working on their bachelor'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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in Florida list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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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It's hard to beat University of Florida if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in sustainability science. Located in the medium-sized city of Gainesville, UF is a public university with a very large student population.
Bachelor's recipients from the sustainability science major at University of Florida make $5,132 more than the typical college grad in this field when they enter the workforce.
It's difficult to beat Florida International University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in sustainability science. FIU is a very large public university located in the large suburb of Miami.
Soon after graduation, sustainability science bachelor's recipients typically make an average of $28,997 in the first five years of their career.
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).