2023 Most Well Attended Conservation Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s
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Degrees Awarded
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Conservation Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” 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 the Great Lakes region, there were 80 conservation biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 conservation biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Conservation Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in conservation biology. To top this list, a school must have a successful conservation biology program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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Most Well Attended Conservation Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree conservation biology students.
Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Conservation Biology in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Stout. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Conservation Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s list. UW - Stout is located in Menomonie, Wisconsin and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 11 masters’s conservation biology degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full UW - Stout Conservation Biology Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Conservation Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Central Michigan University landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, and it awarded 6 masters’s conservation biology degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Conservation Biology at Central Michigan
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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
- *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.
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