2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management in the New England Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 New England 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 New England region, there were 217 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,000 and $25,333 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,889 and $109,372 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in natural resource management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality natural resource management programs that also have a lower cost than 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. 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 New England Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region

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

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management in the New England Region

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$28,352 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region. Orono, Maine is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s resource management degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

UMaine not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Natural Resource Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UMaine are $28,352.

Read more about Natural Resource Management at University of Maine

#2

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$41,576 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Storrs, Connecticut, this large public school awarded 1 degrees to qualified doctorate’s resource management students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our new england region doctor’s degree resource management students list, UCONN has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Natural Resource Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UCONN are $41,576, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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.

Credits

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

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