2023 Most Well Attended Natural Resource Economics Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s
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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 “Most Well Attended Natural Resource Economics Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 New England region, there were 56 environmental/natural resource economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 49 environmental/natural resource economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Natural Resource Economics Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in environmental/natural resource economics. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular environmental/natural resource economics programs in the United States.
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Most Well Attended Natural Resource Economics Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree natural resource economics students.
Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resource Economics in the New England Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Natural Resource Economics Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s. Located in Kingston, Rhode Island, this fairly large public school awarded 29 degrees to qualified bachelors’s natural resource economics students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Environmental/Natural Resource Economics at University of Rhode Island
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Natural Resource Economics Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Durham, New Hampshire, this fairly large public school handed out 20 degrees to qualified bachelors’s natural resource economics students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full UNH Environmental/Natural Resource Economics Report
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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
- *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.
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