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. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Georgia” ranking - to help you make that decision.
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 Georgia, there were 184 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,219 and $20,495 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 20 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,186 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Georgia” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree 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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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Georgia”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbus State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Georgia list. Columbus, Georgia is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s conservation degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Natural Resources Conservation at Columbus State University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Georgia list. Located in Athens, Georgia, this large public school awarded 13 degrees to qualified masters’s conservation students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Georgia that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory University landed the #3 spot on the list. Emory University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Atlanta, Georgia. It awarded 2 masters’s conservation degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Natural Resources Conservation at Emory University
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