2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy in the New England Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Management and Policy Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 1,630 people earned their degree in environmental/natural resources management and policy, making the major the 348th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 65 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 28 environmental/natural resources management and policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Management and Policy Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Management and Policy Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Management and Policy Major in the New England Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy in the New England Region

1

Antioch University - New England
Keene, New Hampshire

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Management and Policy Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Antioch University - New England landed the #1 spot on the list. Keene, New Hampshire is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s natural resources management and policy degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Antioch University - New England Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy Report

2

University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Management and Policy Major in the New England Region list. This fairly large school is located in Kingston, Rhode Island, and it awarded 20 masters’s natural resources management and policy degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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

3

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

Top 15% overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Connecticut. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Management and Policy Major in the New England Region. Located in Storrs, Connecticut, this large public school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified masters’s natural resources management and policy students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy at University of Connecticut

4

Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

#3 overall quality in New England

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Management and Policy Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Harvard University landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 15 degrees to qualified masters’s natural resources management and policy students in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%.

Full Harvard Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy Report

• 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.