2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resource Economics

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resource Economics Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Environmental/Natural Resource Economics is the 1013th most popular major in the country with 118 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 environmental/natural resource economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resource Economics Major” ranking looked at 4 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 for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resource Economics Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree natural resource economics students.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resource Economics

1

Tuskegee University
Tuskegee, Alabama

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resource Economics Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Tuskegee University landed the #1 spot on the list. Tuskegee, Alabama is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s natural resource economics degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Environmental/Natural Resource Economics at Tuskegee University

2

University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware

Top 10% overall quality in United States

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resource Economics Major that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Delaware landed the #2 spot on the list. Newark, Delaware is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s natural resource economics degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, 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 Delaware

3

West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resource Economics Major that were part of this year’s ranking, West Virginia University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Morgantown, West Virginia, this large public school awarded 1 degrees to qualified masters’s natural resource economics students in 2020-2021.

Full West Virginia University Environmental/Natural Resource Economics Report

4

Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

#13 overall quality in United States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cornell University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resource Economics Major. Cornell University is a large school located in Ithaca, New York that handed out 0 masters’s natural resource economics degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Environmental/Natural Resource Economics at Cornell

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.