2025 Best Natural Resources Conservation Schools in Vermont
3Colleges in Vermont
411Conservation Degrees Awarded
$38,227Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in natural resources conservation is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #49 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Natural Resources Conservation Schools in Vermont ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 411 degrees in natural resources conservation annually.
Choosing a Great Natural Resources Conservation School
The conservation program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Natural Resources Conservation rankings. We derive our Best Overall Natural Resources Conservation School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Natural Resources Conservation Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Natural Resources Conservation Schools in Vermont ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Natural Resources Conservation in Vermont
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the conservation degree levels they offer.
University of Vermont is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in natural resources conservation. UVM is a large public university located in the small city of Burlington. This university ranks 4th out of 9 schools for overall quality in the state of Vermont.
There were approximately 244 natural resources conservation students who graduated with this degree at UVM in the most recent year we have data available. After graduation, conservation degree recipients generally make about $26,871 in the first five years of their career.
Every student who is interested in natural resources conservation has to look into Middlebury College. Located in the distant town of Middlebury, Middlebury is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #93 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Middlebury is a great college overall.
There were about 62 natural resources conservation students who graduated with this degree at Middlebury in the most recent data year. Natural Resources Conservation degree recipients from Middlebury College get an earnings boost of about $11,992 over the typical earnings of natural resources conservation graduates.
It is difficult to beat Saint Michael's College if you wish to pursue a degree in natural resources conservation. Saint Michael's is a small private not-for-profit college located in the medium-sized suburb of Colchester. This college ranks 5th out of 9 schools for overall quality in the state of Vermont.
There were approximately 38 natural resources conservation students who graduated with this degree at Saint Michael's in the most recent data year. Soon after graduating, conservation degree recipients generally make around $33,658 in their early careers.
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).
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The conservation program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Natural Resources Conservation rankings. We derive our Best Overall Natural Resources Conservation School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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