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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resource Economics (Income $0-$30k)

5 Ranked Colleges
91 Degrees Awarded
$11,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Natural Resource Economics Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Making $0-$30k

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 Natural Resource Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Environmental/Natural Resource Economics is the 947th most popular major in the country with 146 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 91 environmental/natural resource economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Natural Resource Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in environmental/natural resource economics. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent environmental/natural resource economics 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 environmental/natural resource economics 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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Best Value Natural Resource Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree natural resource economics students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resource Economics (Income $0-$30k)

#1

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Michigan State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Natural Resource Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k. Michigan State is a public institution located in East Lansing, Michigan. The school has a large population, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Michigan State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Environmental/Natural Resource Economics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Michigan State is $6,686 for Bachelor’s Degree Natural Resource Economics students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Environmental/Natural Resource Economics at Michigan State

#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Utah State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Natural Resource Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k. USU is located in Logan, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s natural resource economics degrees to qualified students.

USU also made our “Best Environmental/Natural Resource Economics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #5. It costs about $10,643 for Bachelor’s Degree Natural Resource Economics students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend USU.

Full Utah State University Environmental/Natural Resource Economics Report

#3

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Natural Resource Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k list. Kingston, Rhode Island is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s natural resource economics degrees to 38 students in 2019-2020.

URI not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Environmental/Natural Resource Economics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $14,309 for bachelor’s degree natural resource economics students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend University of Rhode Island.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Environmental/Natural Resource Economics at University of Rhode Island

#4 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Natural Resource Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Tennessee - Knoxville landed the #4 spot on the list. The University of Tennessee - Knoxville is a large school located in Knoxville, Tennessee that handed out 6 bachelors’s natural resource economics degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UT Knoxville, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Environmental/Natural Resource Economics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $10,224 for bachelor’s degree natural resource economics students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend UT Knoxville.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full The University of Tennessee - Knoxville Environmental/Natural Resource Economics Report

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Natural Resource Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k. Durham, New Hampshire is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s natural resource economics degrees to 21 students in 2019-2020.

UNH not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Environmental/Natural Resource Economics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend UNH is $17,747 for Bachelor’s Degree Natural Resource Economics students whose families make $0-$30k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Environmental/Natural Resource Economics at UNH

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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

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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