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

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Southwest region, there were 49 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 19 environmental/natural resources management and policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Management and Policy Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 4 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

More Ways to Rank Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Management and Policy Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Management and Policy Major in the Southwest 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 Southwest Region”.

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

1

East Central University
Ada, Oklahoma

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Central University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Management and Policy Major in the Southwest Region list. East Central University is a small school located in Ada, Oklahoma that handed out 9 masters’s natural resources management and policy degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy at East Central University

2

Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Management and Policy Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Arizona University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Flagstaff, Arizona, this large public school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified masters’s natural resources management and policy students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.6% 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 NAU Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy Report

3

Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Kingsville, Texas

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Management and Policy Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - Kingsville landed the #3 spot on the list. Texas A&M University - Kingsville is a public institution located in Kingsville, Texas. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Texas A&M Kingsville Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy Report

4

Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas

#23 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources Management and Policy Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Lubbock, Texas, this large public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s natural resources management and policy students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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

• 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.