Forestry isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #189 in popularity out of 395 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
There was only one school in Maine to review for the 2025 Best Forestry Schools in Maine ranking.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Forestry Schools in Maine ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the forestry degrees they offer, see the list below.
University of Maine is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in forestry. UMaine is a fairly large public university located in the small suburb of Orono.
Students who graduate with their degree from the forestry program state that they receive average early career earnings of $43,901.
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).