2023 Best Value Resource Management Schools in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k
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Ranked Colleges
147
Degrees Awarded
$13,800
Avg Net Price*
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 “Best Value Resource Management Schools in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Natural Resource Management is the 178th most popular major in the country with 2,933 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, natural resource management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,190 and had an average of $25,062 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Plains States region, there were 147 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,225 and $18,917 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value Resource Management Schools in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in natural resource management. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent natural resource management programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the natural resource management program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Best Value Resource Management Schools in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Resource Management Schools in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k.
Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Natural Resource Management (Income $30-$48k) in the Plains States Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Resource Management Schools in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, North Dakota State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. North Dakota State University is located in Fargo, North Dakota and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 42 ’s resource management degrees to qualified students.
North Dakota State University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Natural Resource Management Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $12,735 for plains states region resource management students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend North Dakota State University.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Natural Resource Management at North Dakota State University
Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Resource Management Schools in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the #2 spot on the list. South Dakota State University is located in Brookings, South Dakota and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 ’s resource management degrees to qualified students.
South Dakota State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Natural Resource Management Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for South Dakota State University is $14,846 for Plains States Region Resource Management students whose families make $30-$48k.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Natural Resource Management at South Dakota State
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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).
- 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
- *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.
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