2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management (Income $0-$30k) in Maine

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Natural Resource Management is the 176th most popular major in the country with 2,905 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, natural resource management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $36,179 and had an average of $26,799 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 67 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,100 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 62 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great natural resource management programs and cost less that 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 natural resource management program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree resource management students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management (Income $0-$30k) in Maine

#1

Unity College

Unity, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$21,833 Average Net Price

$40,728 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Unity College landed the #1 spot on the list. Unity is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Unity, Maine. It awarded 62 bachelors’s resource management degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Unity, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Natural Resource Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $21,833 for maine bachelor’s degree resource management students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Unity.

Full Unity College Natural Resource Management Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management (Income $0-$30k)

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

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Brian M. Powell.

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