2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation in Rhode Island

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 “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Rhode Island” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Natural Resources Conservation is the 49th most popular major in the country with 22,254 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Rhode Island, there were 88 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,565 and $24,438 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,738 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Rhode Island” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in natural resources conservation. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their natural resources conservation program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Rhode Island

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Rhode Island”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation in Rhode Island

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Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

#1 overall quality in Rhode Island

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, Brown University landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Providence, Rhode Island, and it awarded 32 doctorate’s conservation degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island

#5 overall quality in Rhode Island

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the #1 spot on the list. URI is a public institution located in Kingston, Rhode Island. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 27 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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.