When it comes to popularity, forestry sits in the middle of the road, ranking #189 out of 395 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 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Georgia to determine which ones were the best for forestry students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 136 degrees in forestry during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Forestry Schools in Georgia ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of forestry degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Any student who is interested in forestry needs to look into University of Georgia. UGA is a very large public university located in the city of Athens.
Forestry degree recipients from University of Georgia get an earnings boost of about $3,095 above the average earnings of forestry graduates.
Every student pursuing a degree in forestry has to look into Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. Located in the town of Tifton, ABAC Tifton is a public college with a small student population.
Students who graduate with their degree from the forestry program report average early career earnings of $35,706.
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).