Best Forestry Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Great Lakes Region that made our Best Forestry Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Forestry School for Your Doctor's Degree

The forestry doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality forestry program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to forestry students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other forestry students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for forestry to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized forestry related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for forestry students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Great Lakes Region

Sad to say, we don't have adequate info to form a ranking of the top quality colleges for forestry in the Great Lakes Region . This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Great Lakes Region that both offer forestry and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

Instead, check out at some of our other Forestry rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Forestry ranking.

Best Forestry Colleges by State

Explore the best forestry colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	149	5
Indiana	132	10
Wisconsin	108	4

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Forestry Related Rankings by Major

One of 5 majors within the Natural Resources & Conservation area of study, Forestry has other similar majors worth exploring.

Forestry Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Forest Sciences & Biology	18
Forestry, General	2

Most Popular Majors Related to Forestry

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Natural Resources Conservation	53
Natural Resource Management	8
Wildlife Management	8

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Bureau of Land Management. More about our data sources and methodologies.