2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Urban Forestry

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Urban Forestry is the 1099th most popular major in the country with 47 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 urban forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great urban forestry programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the urban forestry program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Urban Forestry Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Urban Forestry Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Urban Forestry

#1

University of California - Davis

Davis, California

#1 in overall quality

$14,669 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Urban Forestry Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Davis landed the #1 spot on the list. University of California - Davis is a large public school situated in Davis, California. It awarded 6 bachelors’s urban forestry degrees in 2019-2020.

UC Davis did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Urban Forestry Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend University of California - Davis is $14,669 for bachelor’s degree urban forestry students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Urban Forestry at University of California - Davis

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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