2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Forestry in the Plains States Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$36,106
Avg Salary
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In 2020-2021, 2,233 people earned their degree in forestry, making the major the 189th most popular in the United States. 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 Plains States region, there were 112 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,106 and $21,734 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 81 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in forestry. That schools that top this list have a program in forestry in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Forestry in the Plains States Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities landed the #1 spot on the list. UMN Twin Cities is a large school located in Minneapolis, Minnesota that handed out 55 bachelors’s forestry degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, 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 93%.
Read full report on Forestry at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Iowa State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Plains States Region. Ames, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s forestry degrees to 23 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, 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 89%.
Read more about Forestry at Iowa State
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Missouri - Columbia landed the #3 spot on the list. Columbia, Missouri is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s forestry degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Forestry at Mizzou
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Plains States Region list. Lincoln, Nebraska is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s forestry degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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