2023 Most Focused Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resource Economics in the Great Lakes Region

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In 2020-2021, 118 people earned their degree in environmental/natural resource economics, making the major the 1013th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 45 environmental/natural resource economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Natural Resource Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in environmental/natural resource economics. That schools that top this list have a program in environmental/natural resource economics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools Highly Focused on Natural Resource Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region natural resource economics students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resource Economics in the Great Lakes Region

1

Malone University
Canton, Ohio

$39,847 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,598 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Natural Resource Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Malone University landed the #1 spot on the list. Malone is located in Canton, Ohio and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 ’s natural resource economics degrees to qualified students.

Full Malone Environmental/Natural Resource Economics Report

2

Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

#14 overall quality in Great Lakes

$47,302 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,167 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Michigan State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Natural Resource Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in East Lansing, Michigan, this large public school awarded 18 degrees to qualified ’s natural resource economics students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Environmental/Natural Resource Economics at Michigan State

• Most Focused Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resource Economics

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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Brian M. Powell.