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2022 Best Value Conservation Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

1 Ranked Colleges
66 Degrees Awarded
$25,196 Avg Student Debt
Best Value Conservation Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Conservation Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking.

Natural Resources Conservation is the 50th most popular major in the country with 22,202 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, natural resources conservation graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,654 and had an average of $25,969 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 3,933 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,080 and $22,811 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 66 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great natural resources conservation 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 resources conservation program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Conservation Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Conservation Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

#1

St Petersburg College

Clearwater, Florida
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend St Petersburg College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Conservation Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Clearwater, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s conservation degrees to 14 students in 2019-2020.

SPC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Natural Resources Conservation Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for St Petersburg College is $6,402 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Conservation students whose families make $48-$75k.

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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).
  • 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.

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  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Lynn Betts.

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