2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Conservation Biology in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Conservation Biology Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 344 people earned their degree in conservation biology, making the major the 687th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 37 conservation biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 conservation biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,978 and $116,300 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality conservation biology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the conservation biology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Conservation Biology Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree conservation biology students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Conservation Biology in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

University of Central Florida

Orlando, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$28,657 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Conservation Biology Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Florida landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Orlando, Florida, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s conservation biology degrees in 2019-2020.

UCF did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Conservation Biology Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Central Florida are $28,657, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Conservation Biology at UCF

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Conservation Biology (With Aid)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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

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