2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management in Illinois

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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Illinois” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Natural Resource Management is the 178th most popular major in the country with 2,933 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Illinois, there were 70 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,626 and $15,120 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Illinois” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in natural resource management. That schools that top this list have a program in natural resource management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Illinois” list to help you make the college decision.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Illinois”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management in Illinois

1

Spoon River College
Canton, Illinois

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Spoon River College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Canton, Illinois, and it awarded 1 associates’s resource management degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Natural Resource Management at Spoon River College

2

College of Lake County
Grayslake, Illinois

#22 overall quality in Illinois

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend College of Lake County. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Illinois. College of Lake County is a fairly large school located in Grayslake, Illinois that handed out 4 associates’s resource management degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Natural Resource Management at College of Lake County

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.