2023 Best Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in California
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in California for Natural Resources Management and Policy for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy is the 348th most popular major in the country with 1,630 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across California, there were 9 environmental/natural resources management and policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality environmental/natural resources management and policy programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the environmental/natural resources management and policy program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in California for Natural Resources Management and Policy for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for california master’s degree vets studying natural resources management and policy.
Top 1 Best Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in California
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - Santa Cruz. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in California for Natural Resources Management and Policy for a Master’s. University of California - Santa Cruz is located in Santa Cruz, California and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 masters’s natural resources management and policy degrees to qualified students.
UC Santa Cruz did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy Master’s Degree Schools in California” list.According to our most recent data, UC Santa Cruz supports 19,161 students, and 273 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 114 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,631. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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.
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