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2022 Best Value Forestry Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k

1 Ranked Colleges
11 Degrees Awarded
$28,400 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Forestry Schools for a Master's in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Forestry Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 the New England region, there were 76 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $23,301 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,606 and $42,101 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great forestry programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the forestry program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Forestry Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Forestry Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Forestry Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Forestry (Income $30-$48k) in the New England Region

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Forestry Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. UMaine is a fairly large public school situated in Orono, Maine. It awarded 11 masters’s forestry degrees in 2019-2020.

UMaine not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Forestry Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Maine are $28,352, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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

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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