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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Minnesota” 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 Minnesota, there were 41 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $18,500 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,091 and $24,039 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Minnesota” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in natural resource management. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in natural resource management.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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

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

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

1

Vermilion Community College
Ely, Minnesota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vermilion Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Minnesota. Ely, Minnesota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s resource management degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Natural Resource Management at Vermilion Community College

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Central Lakes College - Brainerd
Brainerd, Minnesota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Minnesota that were part of this year’s ranking, Central Lakes College - Brainerd landed the #2 spot on the list. Central Lakes College - Brainerd is a small school located in Brainerd, Minnesota that handed out 5 associates’s resource management degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Central Lakes College - Brainerd Natural Resource Management Report

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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.