2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Alaska

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Alaska” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Alaska, there were 33 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,425 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Alaska” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in natural resources conservation. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in natural resources conservation.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for alaska master’s degree conservation students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation in Alaska

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Alaska Pacific University
Anchorage, Alaska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Alaska Pacific University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Alaska list. Alaska Pacific University is a small school located in Anchorage, Alaska that handed out 2 masters’s conservation degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate 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.

Read full report on Natural Resources Conservation at Alaska Pacific

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University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Alaska. Fairbanks, Alaska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s conservation degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

Full University of Alaska Fairbanks Natural Resources Conservation Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation

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.