2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation in Alaska

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Alaska” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 22,254 people earned their degree in natural resources conservation, making the major the 49th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, natural resources conservation graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,963 and had an average of $23,098 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 33 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $24,086 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Alaska” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in natural resources conservation. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in natural resources conservation.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Alaska

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Alaska”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation in Alaska

1

University of Alaska Southeast
Juneau, Alaska

#3 overall quality in Alaska

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Southeast landed the #1 spot on the list. Juneau, Alaska is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s conservation degrees to 16 students in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full University of Alaska Southeast Natural Resources Conservation Report

2

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Alaska Fairbanks is a medium-sized school located in Fairbanks, Alaska that handed out 6 bachelors’s conservation degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of Alaska Fairbanks Natural Resources Conservation Report

3

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Anchorage. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Alaska list. Located in Anchorage, Alaska, this fairly large public school handed out 8 degrees to qualified bachelors’s conservation students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% 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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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

• *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.

Credits

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