2022 Best Value Forestry Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Forestry Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 107 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $18,150 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 27 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Forestry Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in forestry. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality forestry 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 forestry program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Forestry Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree forestry students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Forestry in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Syracuse, New York

#1 in overall quality

$19,737 Average Net Price

$39,369 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Forestry Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry landed the #1 spot on the list. ESF is a small school located in Syracuse, New York that handed out 18 bachelors’s forestry degrees in 2019-2020.

ESF did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Forestry Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The yearly cost to attend ESF is $19,737 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree forestry students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read more about Forestry at ESF

#2

Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science

Paul Smiths, New York

#2 in overall quality

$23,784 Average Net Price

$39,369 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Forestry Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in Paul Smiths, New York, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 9 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s forestry students in 2019-2020.

Paul Smith’s College also took the #2 spot in our “Best Forestry Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $23,784 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree forestry students per year to attend Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science.

Read full report on Forestry at Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science

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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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