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Most Popular Schools for Environmental Studies Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on environment-related issues using scientific, social scientific, or humanistic approaches or a combination. Includes instruction in the basic principles of ecology and environmental science and related subjects such as policy, politics, law, economics, social aspects, planning, pollution control, natural resources, and the interactions of human beings and nature.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 University of Wisconsin-Madison 322 3% $26,025
2 University of California-Berkeley 308 3% $38,066
3 University of California-Santa Barbara 273 4% $36,659
4 Harvard University 237 4% $71,650
5 University of California-Santa Cruz 202 4% $36,217
6 University of Colorado Boulder 193 3% $31,044
7 University of Phoenix-Arizona 179 1% $10,912
8 Arizona State University-Tempe 165 1% $28,048
9 American Public University System 144 1% $6,880
10 Columbia Southern University 143 2% $6,223
11 University of Vermont 119 4% $34,210
12 Western Washington University 106 3% $24,077
13 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 93 1% $30,298
14 University of Oregon 91 2% $27,366
15 Virginia Commonwealth University 89 1% $32,041
16 Appalachian State University 83 2% $19,194
17 Universidad Internacional Iberoamericana 82 13% N/A
18 Binghamton University 76 2% $26,866
19 University of Pennsylvania 71 1% $74,408
20 Ashford University 70 1% $13,230
21 Florida International University 65 0% $23,506
22 University of Utah 64 1% $24,472
23 Florida Gulf Coast University 63 2% $20,390
24 Ohio University-Main Campus 63 1% $28,986
25 Michigan State University 61 1% $28,862
26 Texas A & M University-College Station 61 0% $29,506
27 Middlebury College 61 7% $71,980
28 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 61 1% $27,638
29 San Francisco State University 59 1% $27,480
30 University of San Francisco 58 2% $68,296
31 Western State Colorado University 58 12% $24,073
32 Columbia University in the City of New York 57 0% $76,856
33 Eckerd College 56 12% $61,576
34 Southern Oregon University 55 4% $27,510
35 University of California-Davis 54 1% $35,177
36 University of North Carolina at Asheville 54 7% $20,189
37 Webster University 52 1% $45,762
38 University of Kansas 51 1% $26,566
39 Antioch University-New England 51 23% N/A
40 University of California-San Diego 49 1% $32,838
41 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 48 1% $23,811
42 The University of Montana 47 2% $20,966
43 Northern Michigan University 45 3% $24,187
44 Northern Arizona University 44 1% $27,266
45 Duke University 43 1% $74,339
46 Green Mountain College 43 22% $50,352
47 SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry 43 7% $28,994
48 San Diego State University 42 0% $29,318
49 California State University-Monterey Bay 42 2% $23,564
50 University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus 42 1% $29,097
51 Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania 42 3% $29,086
52 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 39 0% $32,443
53 Plymouth State University 38 3% $28,950
54 University of Illinois at Springfield 36 2% $25,473
55 Oberlin College 35 5% $74,636
56 George Washington University 35 0% $71,930
57 Arizona State University-Skysong 35 0% $27,521
58 Indiana University-Bloomington 34 0% $24,779
59 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 34 0% $27,476
60 Emory University 33 1% $69,502
61 Dartmouth College 33 2% $74,359
62 University of Southern California 33 0% $74,825
63 Northern Illinois University 33 1% $29,117
64 Portland State University 32 0% $26,085
65 Bates College 32 7% $71,168
66 Northeastern University 32 0% $70,592
67 Humboldt State University 31 1% $24,811
68 Fort Lewis College 31 4% $25,428
69 Occidental College 31 6% $74,132
70 University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh 30 1% $19,493
71 Keene State College 30 3% $27,988
72 Purdue University Global-Davenport 30 0% $14,343
73 Boise State University 29 1% $23,076
74 The Evergreen State College 29 3% $23,397
75 California State University-San Marcos 28 1% $25,325
76 Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey 28 7% N/A
77 University of Chicago 28 1% $78,555
78 Warren Wilson College 28 17% $51,100
79 University of North Carolina Wilmington 27 1% $24,982
80 Mount Holyoke College 27 4% $66,558
81 Mansfield University of Pennsylvania 27 5% $29,062
82 Goucher College 27 6% $62,506
83 Saint Michael's College 27 5% $59,765
84 University of Connecticut 26 0% $32,404
85 University of Maryland-Baltimore County 26 1% $28,058
86 University of Delaware 26 0% $29,342
87 Rollins College 25 3% $67,862
88 William Paterson University of New Jersey 25 1% $29,335
89 Temple University 25 0% $33,004
90 Luther College 25 5% $55,805
91 Westminster College 25 3% $48,264
92 University of Rhode Island 25 1% $30,351
93 Eastern Michigan University 24 1% $26,196
94 Stony Brook University 23 0% $26,091
95 Macalester College 23 4% $68,627
96 Rowan University 23 1% $32,099
97 University of Arizona 23 0% $29,217
98 Gettysburg College 23 4% $68,990
99 California University of Pennsylvania 23 1% $26,644
100 Colby College 23 5% $71,202

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Environmental Studies program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.