2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources/Conservation, General Major in the Southeast Region
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Degrees Awarded
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources/Conservation, General Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Natural Resources/Conservation, General is the 245th most popular major in the country with 2,981 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 465 natural resources/conservation, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 199 natural resources/conservation, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources/Conservation, General Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 8 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in natural resources/conservation, general. That schools that top this list have a program in natural resources/conservation, general in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources/Conservation, General Major in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources/Conservation, General Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 8 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources/Conservation, General in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Sewanee - The University of the South. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources/Conservation, General Major in the Southeast Region list. Sewanee, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s natural resources/conservation, general degrees to 19 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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 undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Full Sewanee - The University of the South Natural Resources/Conservation, General Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Carolina State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources/Conservation, General Major in the Southeast Region. North Carolina State University is a large school located in Raleigh, North Carolina that handed out 66 bachelors’s natural resources/conservation, general degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% 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%.
Read more about Natural Resources/Conservation, General at North Carolina State University
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources/Conservation, General Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Clemson University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Clemson, South Carolina, this large public school handed out 35 degrees to qualified bachelors’s natural resources/conservation, general students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Lynchburg. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources/Conservation, General Major in the Southeast Region. University of Lynchburg is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Lynchburg, Virginia. It awarded 0 bachelors’s natural resources/conservation, general degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Natural Resources/Conservation, General at University of Lynchburg
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources/Conservation, General Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Florida State University landed the #5 spot on the list. Florida State is located in Tallahassee, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 42 bachelors’s natural resources/conservation, general degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Natural Resources/Conservation, General at Florida State University
University of Kentucky ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources/Conservation, General Major in the Southeast Region list. UK is a public institution located in Lexington, Kentucky. The school has a large population, and it awarded 23 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Natural Resources/Conservation, General at University of Kentucky
With a ranking of #7, University of Mount Olive did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources/Conservation, General Major in the Southeast Region list. UMO is a private not-for-profit institution located in Mount Olive, North Carolina. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full UMO Natural Resources/Conservation, General Report
Mississippi State University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources/Conservation, General Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Mississippi State, Mississippi is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s natural resources/conservation, general degrees to 11 students in 2021-2022.
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 Resources/Conservation, General at Mississippi State
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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
- *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.
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