2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resources Law Enforcement and Protective Services in the Plains States Region

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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Law Enforcement and Protective Services Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 249 people earned their degree in environmental/natural resources law enforcement and protective services, making the major the 899th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 52 environmental/natural resources law enforcement and protective services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 environmental/natural resources law enforcement and protective services graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Law Enforcement and Protective Services Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in environmental/natural resources law enforcement and protective services. That schools that top this list have a program in environmental/natural resources law enforcement and protective services in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Law Enforcement and Protective Services Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree natural resources law enforcement and protective services students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resources Law Enforcement and Protective Services in the Plains States Region

1

South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota

Top 20% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Law Enforcement and Protective Services Major in the Plains States Region list. South Dakota State University is a public institution located in Brookings, South Dakota. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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%.

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2

Mount Mercy University
Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Law Enforcement and Protective Services Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mount Mercy University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s natural resources law enforcement and protective services students in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resources Law Enforcement and Protective Services

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.