2023 Most Well Attended Forestry Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Forestry Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 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.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Forestry Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in forestry. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in forestry.

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Most Well Attended Forestry Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree forestry students.

Top 2 Most Popular 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 join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Forestry Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s. Located in Syracuse, New York, this small public school handed out 13 diplomas to qualified masters’s forestry students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Forestry at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

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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 Most Well Attended Forestry Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s list. Paul Smith’s College is a small school located in Paul Smiths, New York that handed out 27 masters’s forestry degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Forestry at Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science

• Most Popular 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.

Credits

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