2025 Best Natural Resource Management Schools in California
1College in California
149Resource Management Degrees Awarded
$43,335Avg Early-Career Salary
Natural Resource Management is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #178 out of the 395 majors across the country that we analyze each year. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
There was only one school in California to review for the 2025 Best Natural Resource Management Schools in California ranking.
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Best Schools for Natural Resource Management in California
The schools below may not offer all types of resource management degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in natural resource management. Located in the small suburb of San Luis Obispo, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a public university with a very large student population.
After graduating, resource management degree recipients typically earn about $37,126 at the beginning of their careers.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
