by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Kansas” 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 Kansas, there were 123 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,184 and $23,250 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,354 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Kansas” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in natural resources conservation. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in natural resources conservation.
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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 Kansas”.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for kansas master’s degree conservation students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Kansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Wichita State University landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Wichita, Kansas, and it awarded 9 masters’s conservation degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Natural Resources Conservation at Wichita State University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kansas State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in Kansas. Manhattan, Kansas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s conservation degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Natural Resources Conservation at Kansas State University
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