2025 Best Natural Resources Conservation Schools in West Virginia
3Colleges in West Virginia
395Conservation Degrees Awarded
$38,227Avg Early-Career Salary
Natural Resources Conservation is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #49 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in West Virginia to determine which ones were the best for natural resources conservation students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 395 degrees in natural resources conservation to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Natural Resources Conservation School
Your choice of natural resources conservation 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 resources conservation 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.
Natural Resources Conservation Rankings by 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 West Virginia 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 West Virginia
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the conservation degrees they offer, see the list below.
American Public University System is a great option for students pursuing a degree in natural resources conservation. American Military University is a very large private for-profit university located in the town of Charles Town. A Best Colleges rank of #234 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means American Military University is a great university overall.
There were approximately 341 natural resources conservation students who graduated with this degree at American Military University in the most recent year we have data available. Those natural resources conservation students who get their degree from American Public University System receive $15,258 more than the typical conservation grad.
Every student who is interested in natural resources conservation needs to check out West Virginia University. WVU is a very large public university located in the small city of Morgantown. This university ranks 2nd out of 25 colleges for overall quality in the state of West Virginia.
There were roughly 25 natural resources conservation students who graduated with this degree at WVU in the most recent year we have data available.
Shepherd University is a great decision for students interested in a degree in natural resources conservation. Located in the rural area of Shepherdstown, Shepherd University is a public university with a small student population. This university ranks 9th out of 25 colleges for overall quality in the state of West Virginia.
There were about 11 natural resources conservation students who graduated with this degree at Shepherd University in the most recent data year. After graduation, conservation degree recipients generally make around $29,921 in the first five years of their career.
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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Your choice of natural resources conservation 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 resources conservation schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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