2025 Best Natural Resource Management Schools in New York
3Colleges in New York
131Resource Management Degrees Awarded
$43,335Avg Early-Career Salary
Natural Resource Management is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #178 out of the 395 majors across the country that we analyze each year. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of natural resource management. Combined, these schools handed out 131 degrees in natural resource management to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Natural Resource Management School
Your choice of natural resource management school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for natural resource management schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Pick Your Natural Resource Management Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Natural Resource Management Schools in New York ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Natural Resource Management in New York
The schools below may not offer all types of resource management degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in natural resource management. Located in the rural area of Paul Smiths, Paul Smith's College is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly small student population. This college ranks 779th out of 2,152 schools for overall quality nationwide.
There were about 17 natural resource management students who graduated with this degree at Paul Smith's College in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the resource management program report average early career wages of $41,863.
Finger Lakes Community College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in natural resource management. Finger Lakes Community College is a moderately-sized public college located in the rural area of Canandaigua. This college ranks 129th out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 4 natural resource management students who graduated with this degree at Finger Lakes Community College in the most recent year we have data available.
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Develop a broad-based interdisciplinary skill set to solve complex environmental problems like climate change, alternative energy and sustainability with a specialized online degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
Stony Brook University is a great option for students interested in a degree in natural resource management. SUNY Stony Brook is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Stony Brook. A Best Colleges rank of #153 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means SUNY Stony Brook is a great university overall.
There were about 11 natural resource management students who graduated with this degree at SUNY Stony Brook in the most recent data year. Students who receive their degree from the resource management program make about $37,701 in the first couple years of working.
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).
Your choice of natural resource management school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for natural resource management schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
