2023 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources & Conservation in Louisiana

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Louisiana for a Doctorate” 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 Louisiana, there were 212 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,568 and $24,330 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $79,076 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Louisiana for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in natural resources and conservation. To top this list, a school must have a successful natural resources and conservation program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The natural resources & conservation school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Well Attended Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Louisiana for a Doctorate”.

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Most Well Attended Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Louisiana for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for louisiana doctor’s degree natural resources & conservation students.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources & Conservation in Louisiana

1

Southern University and A & M College
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#23 overall quality in Louisiana

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Louisiana for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern University and A & M College landed the #1 spot on the list. Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s natural resources and conservation degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Natural Resources & Conservation at Southern University and A & M College

2

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#2 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Louisiana for a Doctorate. Louisiana State University is a large public school situated in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It awarded 4 doctorate’s natural resources and conservation degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Natural Resources & Conservation Report

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• Most Popular Doctor’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.