Natural Resource Management is about average in terms of popularity for bachelor's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #149 out of the 363 majors across the country that we analyze each year. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in West Virginia to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of natural resource management. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 43 bachelor's degrees in natural resource management during the 2020-2021 academic year.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on natural resource management students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of natural resource management students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for natural resource management to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized natural resource management related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for natural resource management students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Natural Resource Management Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Natural Resource Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in West Virginia list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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Featured Natural Resource Management Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Develop a broad-based interdisciplinary skill set to solve complex environmental problems like climate change, alternative energy and sustainability with a specialized online degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
West Virginia University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in natural resource management. WVU is a fairly large public university located in the city of Morgantown.
Those natural resource management students who get their bachelor's degree from West Virginia University earn $2,073 more than the typical resource management student.
It's difficult to beat Glenville State College if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in natural resource management. Glenville State College is a small public college located in the remote town of Glenville.
Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the resource management program make around $35,469 for their early career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).