2023 Most Well Attended Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Montana for a Master’s

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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 Montana, there were 363 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,702 and $20,740 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 50 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,873 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Montana for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in natural resources and conservation. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in natural resources and conservation.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Montana for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Montana for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources & Conservation in Montana

1

Montana State University
Bozeman, Montana

#1 overall quality in Montana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Montana State University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Montana for a Master’s. This fairly large school is located in Bozeman, Montana, and it awarded 26 masters’s natural resources and conservation degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% 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 MSU Bozeman

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The University of Montana
Missoula, Montana

#2 overall quality in Montana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Montana. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Natural Resources & Conservation Major in Montana for a Master’s. Missoula, Montana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s natural resources and conservation degrees to 24 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Natural Resources & Conservation at UM

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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.