If you plan on getting your master's degree in natural resource management, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #127 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of natural resource management. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 68 master's degrees in natural resource management during the 2022-2023 academic year.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master'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 master'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 much debt natural resource management students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized natural resource management related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for natural resource management students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Natural Resource Management Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Featured Natural Resource Management Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Learn to fit environmental standards into your business practices when you earn your sustainability and environmental compliance MBA at Southern New Hampshire University.
University of Rhode Island is a wonderful option for individuals interested in a master's degree in natural resource management. Located in the large suburb of Kingston, URI is a public university with a large student population.
After graduation, resource management master's recipients usually make about $54,608 in the first five years of their career.
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).