by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 New England region, there were 182 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,241 and $26,099 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 35 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in natural resource management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their natural resource management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The resource management school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the New England Region”.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the New England Region”.
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Unity College landed the #1 spot on the list. Unity, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s resource management degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Antioch University - New England. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the New England Region list. Antioch University - New England is a small school located in Keene, New Hampshire that handed out 4 masters’s resource management degrees in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. 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 Antioch University - New England
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the New England Region list. University of Rhode Island is a fairly large public school situated in Kingston, Rhode Island. It awarded 20 masters’s resource management degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Natural Resource Management at University of Rhode Island
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the New England Region list. UCONN is a public institution located in Storrs, Connecticut. The school has a large population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.
Read more about Natural Resource Management at University of Connecticut
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the New England Region. This fairly large school is located in Orono, Maine, and it awarded 0 masters’s resource management 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%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harvard University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in the New England Region. Harvard is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It awarded 15 masters’s resource management degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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