2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation in Georgia

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Conservation Major in Georgia for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 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.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Conservation Major in Georgia for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in natural resources conservation. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in natural resources conservation.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Conservation Major in Georgia for a Master’s

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

Top 3 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation in Georgia

1

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#3 overall quality in Georgia

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Conservation Major in Georgia for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Georgia landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Athens, Georgia, this large public school awarded 13 diplomas to qualified masters’s conservation students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Natural Resources Conservation at UGA

2

Columbus State University
Columbus, Georgia

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Conservation Major in Georgia for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Columbus State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Columbus, Georgia, this medium-sized public school awarded 5 diplomas to qualified masters’s conservation students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Natural Resources Conservation at CSU

3

Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

#2 overall quality in Georgia

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Conservation Major in Georgia for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory University landed the #3 spot on the list. Emory is a private not-for-profit institution located in Atlanta, Georgia. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Emory University Natural Resources Conservation Report

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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

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.