2022 Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Great Lakes region, there were 428 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,175 and $21,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 41 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in natural resource management. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great natural resource management programs and 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 for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree resource management students.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management in the Great Lakes Region

#1

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Madison, Wisconsin

#2 in overall quality

$25,523 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region list. University of Wisconsin - Madison is a large school located in Madison, Wisconsin that handed out 12 masters’s resource management degrees in 2019-2020.

UW - Madison not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Natural Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Wisconsin - Madison are $25,523, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Natural Resource Management at UW - Madison

#2

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

#3 in overall quality

$25,295 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$53,358 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee is a large public school situated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It awarded 17 masters’s resource management degrees in 2019-2020.

UWM not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Natural Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee are $25,295, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Natural Resource Management at UWM

#3

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan

#1 in overall quality

$37,056 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Michigan State University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region. East Lansing, Michigan is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s resource management degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Michigan State, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Natural Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Michigan State are $37,056, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Michigan State University Natural Resource Management Report

• Best Value Master’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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