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

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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 Louisiana, there were 105 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,234 and $23,250 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,232 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Louisiana” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Louisiana

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation in Louisiana

1

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#2 overall quality in Louisiana

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this large public school awarded 11 diplomas to qualified masters’s conservation students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Louisiana State University Natural Resources Conservation Report

2

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana

#5 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Louisiana. University of Louisiana at Lafayette is a fairly large school located in Lafayette, Louisiana that handed out 3 masters’s conservation degrees in 2020-2021.

Full UL Lafayette Natural Resources Conservation Report

3

Tulane University of Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana

#1 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tulane University of Louisiana. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Louisiana list. This fairly large school is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it awarded 35 masters’s conservation degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Natural Resources Conservation at Tulane

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