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

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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 North Dakota, there were 67 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,178 and $27,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,776 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources & Conservation Major in North Dakota” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in natural resources and conservation. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in natural resources and conservation.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for north dakota master’s degree natural resources & conservation students.

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

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North Dakota State University - Main Campus
Fargo, North Dakota

#1 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Dakota State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources & Conservation Major in North Dakota. This fairly large school is located in Fargo, North Dakota, and it awarded 14 masters’s natural resources and conservation degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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 more about Natural Resources & Conservation at North Dakota State University

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University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

#2 overall quality in North Dakota

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources & Conservation Major in North Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Dakota landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and it awarded 1 masters’s natural resources and conservation degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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%.

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Sitting Bull College
Fort Yates, North Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sitting Bull College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Resources & Conservation Major in North Dakota. Located in Fort Yates, North Dakota, this small public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified masters’s natural resources and conservation students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Natural Resources & Conservation at Sitting Bull College

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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.