2024 Best Forestry Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
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Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
27
Master's Degrees
When it comes to popularity, a master's degree in
forestry sits in the middle of the road, ranking #182 out of 343 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Forestry Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 27 master's degrees in forestry during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Forestry School for Your Master's Degree
The forestry master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality forestry program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to forestry students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of forestry students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Student Debt - How easy is it for forestry to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized forestry related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for forestry students working on their master's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Forestry Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.