2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Montana

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Montana” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Montana, there were 37 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,873 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Montana” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Montana

The colleges and universities below are the best for montana master’s degree resource management students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management in Montana

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Montana State University
Bozeman, Montana

#1 overall quality in Montana

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Montana that were part of this year’s ranking, Montana State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Bozeman, Montana, this fairly large public school handed out 15 degrees to qualified masters’s resource management students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Natural Resource Management at Montana State University

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The University of Montana
Missoula, Montana

#2 overall quality in Montana

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Montana that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Montana landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Missoula, Montana, and it awarded 1 masters’s resource management degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Natural Resource Management at UM

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management in the Rocky Mountains Region
• Most Focused Master’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.