2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Forestry, General in the Great Lakes Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Forestry, General Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Forestry, General is the 468th most popular major in the country with 908 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 154 forestry, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 forestry, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,470 and $126,402 respectively.
The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their forestry, general program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Forestry, General Major in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree forestry, general students.
Top 1 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Forestry, General in the Great Lakes Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Forestry, General Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan State University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in East Lansing, Michigan, and it awarded 5 doctorate’s forestry, general degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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 more about Forestry, General at Michigan State
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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
- *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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