2025 Best Natural Resource Management Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
138Resource Management Degrees Awarded
$43,335Avg Early-Career Salary
Natural Resource Management isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #178 in popularity out of 395 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Natural Resource Management Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 138 degrees in natural resource management annually.
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. For our Best Overall Natural Resource Management School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that 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 the Southwest Region 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 the Southwest Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the resource management degree levels they offer.
Top Southwest Region Schools in Resource Management
Texas A&M University - College Station is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in natural resource management. Texas A&M College Station is a very large public university located in the city of College Station. A Best Colleges rank of #42 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Texas A&M College Station is a great university overall.
There were roughly 21 natural resource management students who graduated with this degree at Texas A&M College Station in the most recent year we have data available. After graduation, resource management degree recipients generally earn an average of $30,362 in the first five years of their career.
Texas Tech University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in natural resource management. Located in the large city of Lubbock, Texas Tech is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 8th out of 115 colleges for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were about 21 natural resource management students who graduated with this degree at Texas Tech in the most recent data year.
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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.
It is difficult to beat Arizona State University - Skysong if you wish to pursue a degree in natural resource management. ASU - Skysong is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Scottsdale. This university ranks 8th out of 26 schools for overall quality in the state of Arizona.
There were approximately 20 natural resource management students who graduated with this degree at ASU - Skysong in the most recent year we have data available.
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. For our Best Overall Natural Resource Management School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
