2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Forestry, General Major in the Southeast Region

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 “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Forestry, General Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 878 people earned their degree in forestry, general, making the major the 468th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 323 forestry, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 forestry, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Forestry, General Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in forestry, general. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their forestry, general program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Forestry, General Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree forestry, general students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Forestry, General in the Southeast Region

1

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina

#14 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Carolina State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Forestry, General Major in the Southeast Region. NC State is located in Raleigh, North Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 doctorate’s forestry, general degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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 Forestry, General at NC State

2

University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

#9 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Forestry, General Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Florida landed the #2 spot on the list. Gainesville, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s forestry, general degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full University of Florida Forestry, General Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Forestry, General

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.

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