2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management in the Plains States Region

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 “Most Well Attended Resource Management Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s” 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 Plains States region, there were 147 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,225 and $18,917 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Resource Management Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in natural resource management. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in natural resource management.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Resource Management Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management in the Plains States Region

1

North Dakota State University - Main Campus
Fargo, North Dakota

Top 15% overall quality in Plains States

$45,074 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Resource Management Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, North Dakota State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Fargo, North Dakota, this fairly large public school handed out 14 degrees to qualified masters’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%.

Full North Dakota State University Natural Resource Management Report

2

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota

#4 overall quality in Plains States

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

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full UMN Twin Cities Natural Resource Management Report

• Most Popular 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.