2023 Most Focused Colleges for Conservation Biology in Maryland

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Conservation Biology Major in Maryland” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 309 people earned their degree in conservation biology, making the major the 694th most popular in the United States.

Across Maryland, there were 2 conservation biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Conservation Biology Major in Maryland” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools Highly Focused on Conservation Biology Major in Maryland

The colleges and universities below are the best for maryland conservation biology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Conservation Biology in Maryland

1

Frostburg State University
Frostburg, Maryland

#23 overall quality in Maryland

$38,800 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,009 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Frostburg State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Conservation Biology Major in Maryland list. Frostburg State is a small school located in Frostburg, Maryland that handed out 2 ’s conservation biology degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Frostburg State University Conservation Biology Report

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University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, Maryland

#2 overall quality in Maryland

$52,217 Average Early-Career Earnings

$20,640 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maryland - College Park. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Conservation Biology Major in Maryland. UMCP is a large school located in College Park, Maryland that handed out 0 ’s conservation biology degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Conservation Biology at UMCP

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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

• *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.