2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Ecology in the Far Western US Region
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Ecology is the 416th most popular major in the country with 1,028 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 149 ecology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 ecology graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,396 and $49,784 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ecology Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in ecology. That schools that top this list have a program in ecology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ecology Major in the Far Western US Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree ecology students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Ecology in the Far Western US Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Davis. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ecology Major in the Far Western US Region list. UC Davis is located in Davis, California and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 13 masters’s ecology degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.
Full University of California - Davis Ecology Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ecology Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Riverside landed the #2 spot on the list. Riverside, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s ecology degrees to 6 students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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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%.
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- *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.
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