2023 Most Well Attended Conservation Major in Alaska for a Master’s
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Conservation Major in Alaska for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 Alaska, there were 33 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,425 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Conservation Major in Alaska for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in natural resources conservation. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in natural resources conservation.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
One Size Does Not Fit All
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 “Most Well Attended Conservation Major in Alaska for a Master’s”.
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Most Well Attended Conservation Major in Alaska for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for alaska master’s degree conservation students.
Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation in Alaska
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Conservation Major in Alaska for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Alaska Pacific University landed the #1 spot on the list. Alaska Pacific University is a small school located in Anchorage, Alaska that handed out 2 masters’s conservation degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read more about Natural Resources Conservation at Alaska Pacific University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Conservation Major in Alaska for a Master’s list. Fairbanks, Alaska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s conservation degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Natural Resources Conservation at UAF
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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
- *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
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