2022 Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Master’s in Alaska For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students 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 “Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Master’s in Alaska For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Natural Resources & Conservation is the 26th most popular major in the country with 30,341 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, natural resources and conservation graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,196 and had an average of $25,077 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 106 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,325 and $26,561 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great natural resources and conservation programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the natural resources and conservation program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Master’s in Alaska For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for alaska master’s degree natural resources & conservation students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources & Conservation (Income $0-$30k) in Alaska

#1

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks, Alaska

#1 in overall quality

$24,287 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Master’s in Alaska For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Fairbanks, Alaska, this medium-sized public school awarded 16 degrees to qualified masters’s natural resources and conservation students in 2019-2020.

UAF also took the #1 spot in our “Best Natural Resources & Conservation Master’s Degree Schools in Alaska” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Alaska Fairbanks are $24,287.

Read more about Natural Resources & Conservation at University of Alaska Fairbanks

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources & Conservation (Income $0-$30k) in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources & Conservation (Income $0-$30k)

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.

Credits

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

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