2022 Best Value Ecology Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina

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 “Best Value Ecology Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,130 people earned their degree in ecology, making the major the 384th most popular in the United States.

Across North Carolina, there were 11 ecology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 ecology graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,088 and $45,388 respectively.

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

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the ecology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Ecology Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina

The colleges and universities below are the best for north carolina master’s degree ecology students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Ecology in North Carolina

#1

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$30,248 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Ecology Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill landed the #1 spot on the list. Chapel Hill, North Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s ecology degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

UNC Chapel Hill not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Ecology Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are $30,248, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Ecology at UNC Chapel Hill

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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.

Credits

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

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