2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management in West Virginia (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 West Virginia, there were 142 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,700 and $23,750 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 85 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in natural resource management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality natural resource management 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 natural resource management program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The resource management school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Getting Aid”.

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Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management in West Virginia (With Aid)

#1

American Public University System

Charles Town, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$7,050 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, American Public University System landed the #1 spot on the list. Charles Town, West Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out masters’s resource management degrees to 84 students in 2019-2020.

American Military University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Natural Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at American Public University System are $7,050, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full American Public University System Natural Resource Management Report

#2

West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia

$26,154 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend West Virginia University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Getting Aid. West Virginia University is located in Morgantown, West Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 masters’s resource management degrees to qualified students.

WVU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Natural Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at West Virginia University are $26,154, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Natural Resource Management at WVU

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management (With Aid)

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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