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2022 Best Value Forestry Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region

1 Ranked Colleges
30 Degrees Awarded
$12,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Forestry Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Forestry Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 2,292 people earned their degree in forestry, making the major the 187th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, forestry graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $38,496 and had an average of $20,610 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 301 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,933 and $20,043 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 30 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,508 and $17,812 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great forestry programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

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

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Forestry Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Forestry Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Forestry Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Forestry in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Hocking College

Nelsonville, Ohio

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hocking College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Forestry Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region. Hocking College is a small public school situated in Nelsonville, Ohio. It awarded 14 associates’s forestry degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Hocking Technical College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Forestry Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $12,793 for Great Lakes Region Associate Degree Forestry students per year to attend Hocking Technical College.

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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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