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2022 Best Value Natural Resource Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k

5 Ranked Colleges
91 Degrees Awarded
$23,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Natural Resource Economics Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Making $75-$110k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Natural Resource Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Environmental/Natural Resource Economics is the 947th most popular major in the country with 146 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 91 environmental/natural resource economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Natural Resource Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in environmental/natural resource economics. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality environmental/natural resource economics programs that also have a lower cost than 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 environmental/natural resource economics program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Natural Resource Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree natural resource economics students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resource Economics (Income $75-$110k)

#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Utah State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Natural Resource Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k list. Located in Logan, Utah, this large public school handed out 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s natural resource economics students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree natural resource economics students whose families make $75-$110k list, USU has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Environmental/Natural Resource Economics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $16,895 for bachelor’s degree natural resource economics students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Utah State University.

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#2

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Natural Resource Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Rhode Island is a fairly large public school situated in Kingston, Rhode Island. It awarded 38 bachelors’s natural resource economics degrees in 2019-2020.

URI did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Environmental/Natural Resource Economics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend University of Rhode Island is $23,709 for bachelor’s degree natural resource economics students whose families make $75-$110k.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 4.2% 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%.

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#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Natural Resource Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k. University of New Hampshire - Main Campus is located in Durham, New Hampshire and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 21 bachelors’s natural resource economics degrees to qualified students.

UNH did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Environmental/Natural Resource Economics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for UNH is $25,668 for bachelor’s degree natural resource economics students whose families make $75-$110k.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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#4

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Michigan State University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Natural Resource Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k list. East Lansing, Michigan is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s natural resource economics degrees to 20 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Michigan State, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Environmental/Natural Resource Economics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $25,389 for bachelor’s degree natural resource economics students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Michigan State.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.

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#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Natural Resource Economics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k. The University of Tennessee - Knoxville is a large school located in Knoxville, Tennessee that handed out 6 bachelors’s natural resource economics degrees in 2019-2020.

UT Knoxville also made our “Best Environmental/Natural Resource Economics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #4. The estimated yearly cost for UT Knoxville is $24,901 for bachelor’s degree natural resource economics students whose families make $75-$110k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%.

Read full report on Environmental/Natural Resource Economics at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

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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%.

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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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