2022 Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska

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 “Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Nebraska, there were 154 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,125 and $39,708 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 123 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,068 and $24,613 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in natural resources conservation. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality natural resources conservation programs that also have a lower cost than 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 Nebraska

The colleges and universities below are the best for nebraska bachelor’s degree conservation students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation in Nebraska

#1

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Lincoln, Nebraska

#1 in overall quality

$17,208 Average Net Price

$30,616 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska - Lincoln landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Nebraska - Lincoln is located in Lincoln, Nebraska and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 79 bachelors’s conservation degrees to qualified students.

UNL also took the #1 spot in our “Best Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” ranking. It costs about $17,208 for Nebraska Bachelor’s Degree Conservation students per year to attend UNL.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Natural Resources Conservation at UNL

#2

University of Nebraska at Omaha

Omaha, Nebraska

#2 in overall quality

$14,040 Average Net Price

$41,295 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nebraska at Omaha. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Conservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska. University of Nebraska at Omaha is a public institution located in Omaha, Nebraska. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 22 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UNOMAHA not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” list. The yearly cost to attend UNOMAHA is $14,040 for Nebraska Bachelor’s Degree Conservation students.

Read full report on Natural Resources Conservation at University of Nebraska at Omaha

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Lynn Betts.

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