2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Forestry in the Far Western US Region
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Far Western US region, there were 373 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,540 and $22,360 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 49 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in forestry. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in forestry.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Far Western US Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree forestry students.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Forestry in the Far Western US Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oregon State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Far Western US Region list. Oregon State is a public institution located in Corvallis, Oregon. The school has a large population, and it awarded 24 masters’s degrees 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 school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Oregon State Forestry Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Washington - Seattle Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. UW Seattle is a large school located in Seattle, Washington that handed out 16 masters’s forestry degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Washington - Seattle Campus Forestry Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo landed the #3 spot on the list. San Luis Obispo, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s forestry degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Forestry at California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Berkeley. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Far Western US Region list. This large school is located in Berkeley, California, and it awarded 6 masters’s forestry degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full UC Berkeley 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
- *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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