by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 New England 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 New England region, there were 67 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,908 and $21,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.
The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their forestry program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the New England Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the New England Region”.
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Maine is a fairly large public school situated in Orono, Maine. It awarded 13 masters’s forestry degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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