2023 Most Focused 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. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Georgia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Georgia, there were 480 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,476 and $21,100 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 62 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,186 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Georgia” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in natural resources and conservation. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their natural resources and conservation program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

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

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

1

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#3 overall quality in Georgia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Georgia list. Located in Athens, Georgia, this large public school awarded 55 degrees to qualified masters’s natural resources and conservation students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Georgia Natural Resources & Conservation Report

2

Columbus State University
Columbus, Georgia

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Georgia 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 natural resources and conservation students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Natural Resources & Conservation at CSU

3

Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

#2 overall quality in Georgia

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Georgia that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory University landed the #3 spot on the list. Atlanta, Georgia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s natural resources and conservation degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Natural Resources & Conservation at Emory University

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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.