2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy in Washington

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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Management and Policy Major in Washington” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy is the 348th most popular major in the country with 1,630 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Washington, there were 0 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 0 environmental/natural resources management and policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,852 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Management and Policy Major in Washington” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in environmental/natural resources management and policy. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their environmental/natural resources management and policy program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Management and Policy Major in Washington

The colleges and universities below are the best for washington master’s degree natural resources management and policy students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy in Washington

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Central Washington University
Ellensburg, Washington

#5 overall quality in Washington

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central Washington University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Management and Policy Major in Washington. CWU is a public institution located in Ellensburg, Washington. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy at Central Washington University

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University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

#1 overall quality in Washington

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Management and Policy Major in Washington. UW Seattle is a large school located in Seattle, Washington that handed out 0 masters’s natural resources management and policy degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UW Seattle Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy

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.