2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Forestry in the Middle Atlantic Region

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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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 161 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,843 and $15,765 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in forestry. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their forestry program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Forestry in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Syracuse, New York

Top 20% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. ESF is located in Syracuse, New York and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 masters’s forestry degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Forestry at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

2

Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science
Paul Smiths, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Paul Smiths, New York, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 27 diplomas to qualified masters’s forestry students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Forestry at Paul Smith’s College

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Forestry

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

• *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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