2022 Best Value Forestry Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Doctorate in Georgia” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Forestry is the 187th most popular major in the country with 2,292 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Georgia, there were 159 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,650 and $16,418 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,934 and $102,100 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality forestry programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the forestry program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Forestry Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia” list to help you make the college decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Forestry Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia

The colleges and universities below are the best for georgia doctor’s degree forestry students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Forestry in Georgia

#1

University of Georgia

Athens, Georgia

#1 in overall quality

$27,476 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Forestry Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia list. University of Georgia is a large school located in Athens, Georgia that handed out 8 doctorate’s forestry degrees in 2019-2020.

UGA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Forestry Doctor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Georgia are $27,476, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full UGA Forestry Report

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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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