2022 Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 265 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,100 and $19,969 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,944 and $116,843 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality natural resource management programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the natural resource management program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Syracuse, New York

#1 in overall quality

$24,990 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Syracuse, New York, this small public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s resource management students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at ESF, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Natural Resource Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at ESF are $24,990, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Natural Resource Management at ESF

• 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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