2023 Best Value Urban Forestry Schools
2
Ranked Colleges
70
Degrees Awarded
$19,100
Avg Net Price*
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Urban Forestry Schools” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 70 people earned their degree in urban forestry, making the major the 1079th most popular in the United States.
For this year’s “Best Value Urban Forestry Schools” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in urban forestry. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent urban forestry programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the urban forestry program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
More Ways to Rank Urban Forestry Schools
The urban forestry school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Urban Forestry Schools”.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
Best Value Urban Forestry Schools
The colleges and universities below are the best for urban forestry students.
Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Urban Forestry
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Best Value Urban Forestry Schools list. Paul Smith’s College is a small school located in Paul Smiths, New York that handed out 6 ’s urban forestry degrees in 2020-2021.
Paul Smith’s College also took the #2 spot in our “Best Urban Forestry Schools” ranking. It costs about $22,515 for Urban Forestry students per year to attend Paul Smith’s College.
Read full report on Urban Forestry at Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science
Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Urban Forestry Schools that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Davis landed the #2 spot on the list. UC Davis is a large school located in Davis, California that handed out 13 ’s urban forestry degrees in 2020-2021.
UC Davis did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Urban Forestry Schools” list. It costs about $15,768 for urban forestry students per year to attend University of California - Davis.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full UC Davis Urban 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
- *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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