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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Utah” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Natural Resources & Conservation is the 25th most popular major in the country with 30,503 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Utah, there were 264 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,976 and $21,250 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,613 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Utah” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in natural resources and conservation. That schools that top this list have a program in natural resources and conservation in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

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

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Utah State University
Logan, Utah

#5 overall quality in Utah

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Utah State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Utah list. Utah State University is located in Logan, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 masters’s natural resources and conservation degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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%.

Read full report on Natural Resources & Conservation at Utah State University

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Brigham Young University - Provo
Provo, Utah

#1 overall quality in Utah

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brigham Young University - Provo. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Utah list. Located in Provo, Utah, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 13 degrees to qualified masters’s natural resources and conservation students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Natural Resources & Conservation at Brigham Young University - Provo

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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.