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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Colorado” 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 Colorado, there were 616 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,570 and $24,325 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 163 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,172 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Colorado” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in natural resources conservation. That schools that top this list have a program in natural resources conservation in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation in Colorado

1

Western Colorado University
Gunnison, Colorado

$29,076 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Colorado University landed the #1 spot on the list. Western Colorado University is located in Gunnison, Colorado and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 29 masters’s conservation degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Natural Resources Conservation at Western

2

University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, Colorado

#2 overall quality in Colorado

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado Boulder. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Colorado list. Located in Boulder, Colorado, this large public school awarded 76 diplomas to qualified masters’s conservation students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of Colorado Boulder Natural Resources Conservation Report

3

Colorado State University - Fort Collins
Fort Collins, Colorado

#4 overall quality in Colorado

$49,628 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado State University - Fort Collins. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Colorado list. Colorado State is a public institution located in Fort Collins, Colorado. The school has a large population, and it awarded 46 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Natural Resources Conservation at Colorado State University - Fort Collins

4

University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus
Denver, Colorado

#8 overall quality in Colorado

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus landed the #4 spot on the list. CU Anschutz is a public institution located in Denver, Colorado. The school has a large population, and it awarded 12 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Natural Resources Conservation at CU Anschutz

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation in the Rocky Mountains 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.