2024 Best Value Colleges for Natural Resource Management in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$16,700
Avg Net Price*
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Resource Management Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 2,933 people earned their degree in natural resource management, making the major the 178th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, natural resource management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,190 and had an average of $25,062 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 131 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,450 and $21,391 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Resource Management Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered 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.
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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Best Value Resource Management Schools in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Resource Management Schools in the Southwest Region.
Top 4 Best Value Colleges for Natural Resource Management in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Skysong. It ranked #1 on our 2024 Best Value Resource Management Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in Scottsdale, Arizona, this large public school awarded 12 degrees to qualified ’s resource management students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at ASU - Skysong, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Natural Resource Management Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full ASU - Skysong Natural Resource Management Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #2 on our 2024 Best Value Resource Management Schools in the Southwest Region list. Lubbock, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s resource management degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.
Texas Tech also took the #2 spot in our “Best Natural Resource Management Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $16,194 for southwest region resource management students per year to attend Texas Tech.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default 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 Texas Tech University
Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Resource Management Schools in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State University landed the #3 spot on the list. This large school is located in San Marcos, Texas, and it awarded 11 ’s resource management degrees in 2020-2021.
Texas State also took the #4 spot in our “Best Natural Resource Management Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Texas State is $14,887 for southwest region resource management students.
Read more about Natural Resource Management at Texas State
Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Resource Management Schools in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #4 spot on the list. Texas A&M University - College Station is located in College Station, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 30 ’s resource management degrees to qualified students.
Texas A&M College Station also made our “Best Natural Resource Management Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $18,919 for Southwest Region Resource Management students per year to attend Texas A&M College Station.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Natural Resource Management at Texas A&M University - College Station
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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
- *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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