2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism (Income $75-$110k) in the Great Lakes Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 170 people earned their degree in environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism, making the major the 865th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 23 environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,428 and $121,375 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism programs and 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 recreation and tourism program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree natural resource recreation and tourism students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism (Income $75-$110k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan

#1 in overall quality

$37,056 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Michigan State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. East Lansing, Michigan is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s natural resource recreation and tourism degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Michigan State also made our “Best Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Michigan State University are $37,056, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism at Michigan State University

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism (Income $75-$110k)

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.

Credits

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

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