2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism in the New England Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism is the 865th most popular major in the country with 170 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the New England region, there were 31 environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism in the New England Region

#1

Unity College

Unity, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$26,080 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Unity College landed the #1 spot on the list. Unity is located in Unity, Maine and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 12 bachelors’s natural resource recreation and tourism degrees to qualified students.

Unity did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. It costs about $26,080 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism students per year to attend Unity.

Full Unity College Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Report

#2

University of Vermont

Burlington, Vermont

#1 in overall quality

$18,982 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Vermont. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region list. University of Vermont is a fairly large school located in Burlington, Vermont that handed out 19 bachelors’s natural resource recreation and tourism degrees in 2019-2020.

UVM also took the #1 spot in our “Best Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. It costs about $18,982 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism students per year to attend University of Vermont.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UVM Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism

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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