2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Conservation Biology in the Great Lakes Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Conservation Biology Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 344 people earned their degree in conservation biology, making the major the 687th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 89 conservation biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 conservation biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Conservation Biology Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Conservation Biology Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree conservation biology students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Conservation Biology in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Central Michigan University

Mount Pleasant, Michigan

#1 in overall quality

$19,359 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Conservation Biology Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Central Michigan University landed the #1 spot on the list. Central Michigan is a fairly large public school situated in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. It awarded 10 masters’s conservation biology degrees in 2019-2020.

Central Michigan also made our “Best Conservation Biology Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Central Michigan University are $19,359, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Conservation Biology

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Ernst Haeckel.

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