2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism in the Southeast Region

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In 2020-2021, 177 people earned their degree in environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism, making the major the 847th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 25 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 25 environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism. That schools that top this list have a program in environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree natural resource recreation and tourism students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism in the Southeast Region

1

Maryville College
Maryville, Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Maryville College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Maryville, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s natural resource recreation and tourism students in 2020-2021.

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2

Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama

Top 10% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Auburn University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Major in the Southeast Region. Auburn is a public institution located in Auburn, Alabama. The school has a large population, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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3

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#10 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Georgia. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Major in the Southeast Region. UGA is a public institution located in Athens, Georgia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.

Read more about Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism at UGA

• Most Focused 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

• *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.