a master's degree in natural resource management is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #127 out of 343 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Natural Resource Management Master's Degree Schools in Colorado ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 221 master's degrees in natural resource management during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on natural resource management students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other natural resource management students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for natural resource management to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized natural resource management related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for natural resource management students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Natural Resource Management Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Natural Resource Management Master's Degree Schools in Colorado ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Featured Natural Resource Management Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Learn to fit environmental standards into your business practices when you earn your sustainability and environmental compliance MBA at Southern New Hampshire University.
It's hard to beat University of Denver if you wish to pursue a master's degree in natural resource management. DU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Denver.
Natural Resource Management master's degree recipients from University of Denver receive an earnings boost of approximately $11,035 over the typical earnings of natural resource management graduates.
Colorado State University - Fort Collins is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a master's degree in natural resource management. Located in the medium-sized city of Fort Collins, Colorado State is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Master's students who receive their degree from the resource management program make an average of $42,686 in their early career salary.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).