2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the Plains States Region
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Ranked Colleges
58
Degrees Awarded
$36,301
Avg Salary
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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 the Plains States region, there were 147 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,225 and $18,917 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 58 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 9 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in natural resource management. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in natural resource management.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree resource management students.
Top 9 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management in the Plains States Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Dakota State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Fargo, North Dakota, this fairly large public school handed out 27 degrees to qualified bachelors’s resource management students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Natural Resource Management at North Dakota State University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the Plains States Region list. Brookings, South Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s resource management degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Natural Resource Management at South Dakota State
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Concordia College at Moorhead. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the Plains States Region. Concordia College Moorhead is a private not-for-profit institution located in Moorhead, Minnesota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
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%.
Read more about Natural Resource Management at Concordia College at Moorhead
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Dordt University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the Plains States Region. This small school is located in Sioux Center, Iowa, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s resource management degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Natural Resource Management at Dordt
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington University in St Louis landed the #5 spot on the list. Washington University in St Louis is located in Saint Louis, Missouri and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 12 bachelors’s resource management degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Full Washington University in St Louis Natural Resource Management Report
University of Northern Iowa came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the Plains States Region ranking. Cedar Falls, Iowa is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s resource management degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Natural Resource Management at UNI
University of Nebraska - Lincoln came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the Plains States Region ranking. Located in Lincoln, Nebraska, this large public school handed out 2 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s resource management students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Natural Resource Management at UNL
Mount Mercy University ranked #8 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the Plains States Region list. Mount Mercy University is located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s resource management degrees to qualified students.
Read more about Natural Resource Management at Mount Mercy University
Bemidji State University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the Plains States Region ranking. Located in Bemidji, Minnesota, this small public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s resource management students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Natural Resource Management at Bemidji State University
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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
- *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.
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