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2022 Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Getting Aid

4 Ranked Colleges
355 Degrees Awarded
$22,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor's in Vermont For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Natural Resources Conservation is the 50th most popular major in the country with 22,202 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Vermont, there were 388 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,367 and $31,584 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 355 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the natural resources conservation program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Getting Aid.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation in Vermont (With Aid)

#1

University of Vermont

Burlington, Vermont

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Vermont. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Getting Aid. UVM is located in Burlington, Vermont and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 240 bachelors’s conservation degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our vermont bachelor’s degree conservation students with aid list, UVM has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Vermont is $18,982 for vermont bachelor’s degree conservation students with aid.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Natural Resources Conservation at UVM

#2

Middlebury College

Middlebury, Vermont

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Middlebury College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Getting Aid. Middlebury College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Middlebury, Vermont. The school has a small population, and it awarded 49 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Middlebury also took the #1 spot in our “Best Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” ranking. It costs about $25,656 for Vermont Bachelor’s Degree Conservation students with aid per year to attend Middlebury College.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Natural Resources Conservation at Middlebury

#3

Northern Vermont University

Johnson, Vermont

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northern Vermont University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Getting Aid. Northern Vermont University is a small public school situated in Johnson, Vermont. It awarded 12 bachelors’s conservation degrees in 2019-2020.

Northern Vermont University also made our “Best Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” list, coming in at #4. The estimated yearly cost for Northern Vermont University is $15,749 for Vermont Bachelor’s Degree Conservation students with aid.

Full Northern Vermont University Natural Resources Conservation Report

#4

Saint Michael's College

Colchester, Vermont

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Michael’s College. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Getting Aid list. This small school is located in Colchester, Vermont, and it awarded 29 bachelors’s conservation degrees in 2019-2020.

Saint Michael’s not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” list. It costs about $27,927 for Vermont Bachelor’s Degree Conservation students with aid per year to attend Saint Michael’s.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read more about Natural Resources Conservation at Saint Michael’s

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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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