2023 Most Well Attended Resource Management Major in Maine for a Master’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Resource Management Major in Maine for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Maine, there were 49 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,677 and $27,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,717 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Resource Management Major in Maine for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in natural resource management. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular natural resource management programs in the United States.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Resource Management Major in Maine for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Resource Management Major in Maine for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management in Maine

1

Unity College
Unity, Maine

#7 overall quality in Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Unity College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Resource Management Major in Maine for a Master’s list. Unity is a private not-for-profit institution located in Unity, Maine. The school has a small population, and it awarded 7 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Unity Natural Resource Management Report

2

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

#6 overall quality in Maine

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Resource Management Major in Maine for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #2 spot on the list. Orono, Maine is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s resource management degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Natural Resource Management at University of Maine

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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.