by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Forestry is the 189th most popular major in the country with 2,233 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, forestry graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $38,829 and had an average of $21,444 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 259 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,685 and $25,528 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 168 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 7 colleges that offer a degree in forestry. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in forestry.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Great Lakes Region list. University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point is a medium-sized public school situated in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. It awarded 71 bachelors’s forestry degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northland College landed the #2 spot on the list. Northland College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Ashland, Wisconsin. It awarded 4 bachelors’s forestry degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan Technological University landed the #3 spot on the list. Michigan Technological University is located in Houghton, Michigan and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 22 bachelors’s forestry degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, 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%.
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Carbondale, Illinois, this fairly large public school handed out 38 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s forestry students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Purdue University - Main Campus. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Great Lakes Region. West Lafayette, Indiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s forestry degrees to 19 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Michigan State University landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Located in East Lansing, Michigan, this large public school awarded 7 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s forestry students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
University of Wisconsin - Madison landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. UW - Madison is a large public school situated in Madison, Wisconsin. It awarded 7 bachelors’s forestry degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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