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2022 Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k

6 Ranked Colleges
249 Degrees Awarded
$23,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor's in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 22,202 people earned their degree in natural resources conservation, making the major the 50th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, natural resources conservation graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,654 and had an average of $25,969 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 294 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,350 and $32,378 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 249 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in natural resources conservation. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent natural resources conservation programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the natural resources conservation program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree conservation students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation (Income $75-$110k) in Maine

#1

Bowdoin College

Brunswick, Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bowdoin College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k. Brunswick, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s conservation degrees to 37 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Bowdoin, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Bowdoin is $20,816 for maine bachelor’s degree conservation students whose families make $75-$110k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Natural Resources Conservation at Bowdoin

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Maine landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Southern Maine is located in Portland, Maine and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 23 bachelors’s conservation degrees to qualified students.

University of Southern Maine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The yearly cost to attend University of Southern Maine is $16,543 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Conservation students whose families make $75-$110k.

Read more about Natural Resources Conservation at University of Southern Maine

#3

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k list. University of Maine is located in Orono, Maine and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 45 bachelors’s conservation degrees to qualified students.

UMaine not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $20,312 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Conservation students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend University of Maine.

The low student loan default rate of 4.8% 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%.

Read full report on Natural Resources Conservation at UMaine

#4

Bates College

Lewiston, Maine

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Bates College landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Lewiston, Maine, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 30 degrees to qualified bachelors’s conservation students in 2019-2020.

Bates also took the #2 spot in our “Best Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Bates is $20,124 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Conservation students whose families make $75-$110k.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low 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 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.

Read more about Natural Resources Conservation at Bates College

#5

Unity College

Unity, Maine
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Unity College landed the #5 spot on the list. Unity College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Unity, Maine. The school has a small population, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Unity, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Unity is $25,973 for maine bachelor’s degree conservation students whose families make $75-$110k.

Read more about Natural Resources Conservation at Unity College

#6

University of New England

Biddeford, Maine

University of New England landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k ranking. UNE is located in Biddeford, Maine and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 13 bachelors’s conservation degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our maine bachelor’s degree conservation students whose families make $75-$110k list, UNE has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UNE is $34,275 for maine bachelor’s degree conservation students whose families make $75-$110k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Natural Resources Conservation at UNE

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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