by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Maine” 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 Maine, there were 40 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 $53,717 and $0 respectively.
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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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in Maine” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for maine master’s degree forestry students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in Maine. University of Maine is a fairly large school located in Orono, Maine that handed out 13 masters’s forestry degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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