2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Conservation Biology in the New England Region

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Conservation Biology is the 694th most popular major in the country with 309 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 49 conservation biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 conservation biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Biology Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in conservation biology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their conservation biology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Biology Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Biology Major in the New England Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Conservation Biology in the New England Region

1

Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts

#9 overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tufts University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Biology Major in the New England Region. Tufts is located in Medford, Massachusetts and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 19 masters’s conservation biology degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

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2

Western Connecticut State University
Danbury, Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Connecticut State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Biology Major in the New England Region list. Western Connecticut State University is located in Danbury, Connecticut and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s conservation biology degrees to qualified students.

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3

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

Top 15% overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Connecticut. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Biology Major in the New England Region. Located in Storrs, Connecticut, this large public school awarded 4 degrees to qualified masters’s conservation biology students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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• Most Focused 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.