2022 Best Value Urban Forestry Schools for an Associate

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 “Best Value Urban Forestry Schools for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 47 people earned their degree in urban forestry, making the major the 1099th most popular in the United States.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 20 urban forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality urban forestry programs that also have a lower cost than 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Urban Forestry Schools for an Associate” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Urban Forestry Schools for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree urban forestry students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Urban Forestry

#1

Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science

Paul Smiths, New York

#1 in overall quality

$23,784 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Urban Forestry Schools for an Associate list. Paul Smiths, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s urban forestry degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our associate degree urban forestry students list, Paul Smith’s College has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Urban Forestry Associate Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $23,784 for associate degree urban forestry students per year to attend Paul Smith’s College.

Read more about Urban Forestry at Paul Smith’s College

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

• *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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