2022 Best Value Forestry Schools for a Master’s in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Forestry Schools for a Master’s in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Forestry is the 187th most popular major in the country with 2,292 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, forestry graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $38,496 and had an average of $20,610 in loans still to pay off.

Across Texas, there were 55 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $24,444 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent forestry programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the forestry program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Forestry Schools for a Master’s in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for texas master’s degree forestry students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Forestry (Income $0-$30k) in Texas

#1

Stephen F Austin State University

Nacogdoches, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$15,695 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stephen F Austin State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Forestry Schools for a Master’s in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k list. Nacogdoches, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s forestry degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at SFASU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Forestry Master’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Stephen F Austin State University are $15,695, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Forestry at SFASU

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Forestry (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Forestry (Income $0-$30k)

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.

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