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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Arizona 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 Arizona, there were 26 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,233 and $38,981 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the natural resource management program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Master’s in Arizona For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for arizona master’s degree resource management students with aid.

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

#1

Northern Arizona University

Flagstaff, Arizona

#2 in overall quality

$19,489 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$43,798 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northern Arizona University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Master’s in Arizona For Those Getting Aid. Flagstaff, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s resource management degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

NAU also took the #2 spot in our “Best Natural Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in Arizona” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at NAU are $19,489.

Read more about Natural Resource Management at NAU

#1

Arizona State University - Skysong

Scottsdale, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$6,724 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Master’s in Arizona For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Skysong landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Scottsdale, Arizona, and it awarded 12 masters’s resource management degrees in 2019-2020.

ASU - Skysong not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Natural Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in Arizona” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Arizona State University - Skysong are $6,724, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full ASU - Skysong Natural Resource Management Report

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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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