by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Maine” 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 Maine, there were 227 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,085 and $21,895 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 27 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,717 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Maine” 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.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
The conservation school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Maine”.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for maine master’s degree conservation students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Unity College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Maine list. Unity College is a small school located in Unity, Maine that handed out 18 masters’s conservation degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Maine. This fairly large school is located in Orono, Maine, and it awarded 9 masters’s conservation degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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