2022 Best Value Forestry, General Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Forestry, General Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 959 people earned their degree in forestry, general, making the major the 468th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 74 forestry, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 forestry, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent forestry, general programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the forestry, general program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Forestry, General Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Forestry, General Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Forestry, General in the Southwest Region

#1

Northern Arizona University

Flagstaff, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$19,489 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Arizona University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Forestry, General Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region list. NAU is a large school located in Flagstaff, Arizona that handed out 6 masters’s forestry, general degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region master’s degree forestry, general students list, NAU has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Forestry, General Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at NAU are $19,489, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Forestry, General at Northern Arizona University

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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.

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