Natural Resources & Conservation degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #25 out of the 38 majors we look at each year. While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Natural Resources & Conservation Schools in South Carolina ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 255 degrees in natural resources & conservation during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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Best Schools for Natural Resources & Conservation in South Carolina
The schools below may not offer all types of natural resources & conservation degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top South Carolina Schools in Natural Resources & Conservation
It is hard to beat Clemson University if you want to pursue a degree in natural resources & conservation. Clemson is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of Clemson.
Students who graduate with their degree from the natural resources & conservation program report average early career wages of $37,459.
Any student pursuing a degree in natural resources & conservation needs to look into University of South Carolina - Columbia. Located in the city of Columbia, UofSC is a public university with a very large student population.
Students who receive their degree from the natural resources & conservation program make about $34,341 for their early career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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