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2022 Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region

4 Ranked Colleges
145 Degrees Awarded
$22,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Bachelor's in the New England Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 2,905 people earned their degree in natural resource management, making the major the 176th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, natural resource management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $36,179 and had an average of $26,799 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 217 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,000 and $25,333 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 145 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 4 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the natural resource management program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The resource management school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region”.

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Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree resource management students.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management in the New England Region

#1

Unity College

Unity, Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Unity College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region. Unity is located in Unity, Maine and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 62 bachelors’s resource management degrees to qualified students.

Unity not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Natural Resource Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. It costs about $26,080 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Resource Management students per year to attend Unity College.

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#2

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region. Kingston, Rhode Island is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s resource management degrees to 38 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our new england region bachelor’s degree resource management students list, URI has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Natural Resource Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. It costs about $20,607 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Resource Management students per year to attend University of Rhode Island.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, 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 Natural Resource Management at University of Rhode Island

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region. Durham, New Hampshire is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s resource management degrees to 21 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UNH, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Natural Resource Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of New Hampshire - Main Campus is $24,067 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Resource Management students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

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#4

University of Vermont

Burlington, Vermont

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Vermont. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region list. This fairly large school is located in Burlington, Vermont, and it awarded 19 bachelors’s resource management degrees in 2019-2020.

UVM did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Natural Resource Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. It costs about $18,982 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Resource Management students per year to attend University of Vermont.

The low student loan default rate of 2.4% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read full report on Natural Resource Management at UVM

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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

Footnotes

  • *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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