Best Natural Resource Management Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Great Lakes Region that made our Best Natural Resource Management Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Natural Resource Management School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of natural resource management for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality resource management program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to natural resource management students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of natural resource management students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for natural resource management to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized natural resource management related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for natural resource management students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Great Lakes Region

Because of lacking data, we were not able to provide you with the natural resource management quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Great Lakes Region that both offer natural resource management and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

As an alternative, take a look at at some of our other Natural Resource Management rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Natural Resource Management ranking.

Best Natural Resource Management Colleges by State

Explore the best natural resource management colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Illinois	153	0
Michigan	149	8
Wisconsin	108	4

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Rankings in Majors Related to Resource Management

One of 5 majors within the Natural Resources & Conservation area of study, Natural Resource Management has other similar majors worth exploring.

Resource Management Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy	6
Water, Wetlands, & Marine Resources Management	1
Energy and Environmental Policy	1

Most Popular Majors Related to Resource Management

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Natural Resources Conservation	53
Forestry	20
Wildlife Management	8

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Brian M. Powell. More about our data sources and methodologies.