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

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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 Oklahoma, there were 161 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,317 and $22,108 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 73 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,146 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Oklahoma” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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 Oklahoma

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

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

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University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
Norman, Oklahoma

#1 overall quality in Oklahoma

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Oklahoma that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Oklahoma Norman Campus is a large school located in Norman, Oklahoma that handed out 60 masters’s conservation degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Natural Resources Conservation at University of Oklahoma

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Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Stillwater, Oklahoma

#2 overall quality in Oklahoma

$53,459 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Oklahoma that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. OSU is a large public school situated in Stillwater, Oklahoma. It awarded 13 masters’s conservation degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full OSU Natural Resources Conservation Report

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