2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy in North Carolina

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Resources Management and Policy Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,581 people earned their degree in environmental/natural resources management and policy, making the major the 362nd most popular in the United States.

Across North Carolina, there were 56 environmental/natural resources management and policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 environmental/natural resources management and policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,088 and $45,388 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent environmental/natural resources management and policy programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the environmental/natural resources management and policy program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The natural resources management and policy school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Natural Resources Management and Policy Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina”.

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Best Value Natural Resources Management and Policy Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Natural Resources Management and Policy Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy in North Carolina

#1

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$59,140 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Duke University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Natural Resources Management and Policy Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina. Durham, North Carolina is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s natural resources management and policy degrees to 16 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Duke, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Duke are $59,140, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy at Duke

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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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