2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources & Conservation in Alaska

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Alaska” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 30,503 people earned their degree in natural resources and conservation, making the major the 25th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, natural resources and conservation graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,158 and had an average of $23,267 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 79 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,425 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Alaska” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in natural resources and conservation. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in natural resources and conservation.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Alaska

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

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

1

Alaska Pacific University
Anchorage, Alaska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Alaska Pacific University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Alaska. Located in Anchorage, Alaska, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified masters’s natural resources and conservation students in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Alaska Pacific Natural Resources & Conservation Report

2

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Alaska. Fairbanks, Alaska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s natural resources and conservation degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.

Full University of Alaska Fairbanks Natural Resources & Conservation Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources & Conservation in the Far Western US 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.