2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management in the Far Western US Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students 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 “Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Natural Resource Management is the 176th most popular major in the country with 2,905 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Far Western US region, there were 434 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,057 and $22,275 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,342 and $136,270 respectively.

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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region doctor’s degree resource management students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management in the Far Western US Region

#1

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii

#1 in overall quality

$34,550 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Manoa landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s resource management degrees in 2019-2020.

UH Manoa also took the #1 spot in our “Best Natural Resource Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UH Manoa are $34,550, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Natural Resource Management at UH Manoa

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Brian M. Powell.

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