2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Conservation Biology in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Conservation Biology Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Conservation Biology is the 687th most popular major in the country with 344 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 37 conservation biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 conservation biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,978 and $116,300 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality conservation biology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the conservation biology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Conservation Biology Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Conservation Biology Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Conservation Biology Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Conservation Biology in the Southeast Region

#1

University of Central Florida

Orlando, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$28,657 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Florida. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Conservation Biology Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region list. UCF is located in Orlando, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 2 doctorate’s conservation biology degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UCF, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Conservation Biology Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Central Florida are $28,657, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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