2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Forestry in Illinois (With Aid)

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Forestry Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Illinois, there were 59 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,000 and $18,129 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,267 and $46,814 respectively.

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

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the forestry program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Forestry Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Forestry Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Forestry in Illinois (With Aid)

#1

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Carbondale, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$32,928 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Forestry Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the #1 spot on the list. Southern Illinois University Carbondale is located in Carbondale, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 masters’s forestry degrees to qualified students.

SIUC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Forestry Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are $32,928, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Forestry at SIUC

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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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