2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Forestry in the Southwest Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Forestry is the 189th most popular major in the country with 2,247 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , forestry graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $38,959 and had an average of $20,168 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 173 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,316 and $21,111 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in forestry. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their forestry program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree forestry students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Forestry in the Southwest Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Arizona University landed the #1 spot on the list. NAU is a large school located in Flagstaff, Arizona that handed out 6 masters’s forestry degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%.
Full Northern Arizona University Forestry Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stephen F Austin State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Southwest Region list. This fairly large school is located in Nacogdoches, Texas, and it awarded 7 masters’s forestry degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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%.
Full SFASU Forestry Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #3 spot on the list. Texas A&M College Station is located in College Station, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 13 masters’s forestry degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.
Full Texas A&M College Station Forestry Report
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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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