2023 Best Natural Resource Management Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in North Carolina
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Ranked Colleges
33
Degrees Awarded
$28,400
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in North Carolina for Resource Management for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Natural Resource Management is the 178th most popular major in the country with 2,933 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, natural resource management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,190 and had an average of $25,062 in loans still to pay off.
Across North Carolina, there were 71 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,891 and $26,000 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in North Carolina for Resource Management for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in natural resource management. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent natural resource management programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the natural resource management program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in North Carolina for Resource Management for a Master’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in North Carolina for Resource Management for a Master’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in North Carolina for Resource Management for a Master’s”.
Top 2 Best Natural Resource Management Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in North Carolina
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in North Carolina for Resource Management for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, North Carolina State University landed the #1 spot on the list. North Carolina State University is a large school located in Raleigh, North Carolina that handed out 10 masters’s resource management degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at NC State, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Natural Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” ranking.According to our most recent data, North Carolina State University supports 36,042 students, and 1,102 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 493 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $5,886. On top of their other funding sources, 27 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. North Carolina State University does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full North Carolina State University Veteran Student Life Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in North Carolina for Resource Management for a Master’s list. Located in Durham, North Carolina, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 14 diplomas to qualified masters’s resource management students in 2020-2021.
Duke did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Natural Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list.According to our most recent data, Duke supports 16,172 students, and 36 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 9 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $18,387. On top of their other funding sources, 8 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Duke University]](/colleges/duke-university/student-life/veterans/)
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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.
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