2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management in the New England Region

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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 New England region, there were 182 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,241 and $26,099 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the New England Region” 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.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the New England Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management in the New England Region

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University of Maine
Orono, Maine

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Maine is a public institution located in Orono, Maine. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Natural Resource Management at UMaine

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University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #1 spot on the list. UCONN is a large school located in Storrs, Connecticut that handed out 16 doctorate’s resource management degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Natural Resource Management at UCONN

• Most Focused Doctor’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

• *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.