2022 Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 30,341 people earned their degree in natural resources and conservation, making the major the 26th most popular in the United States. 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 Maine, there were 481 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,914 and $30,431 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 44 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,633 and $49,829 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in natural resources and conservation. 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. 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 “Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources & Conservation (Income $30-$48k) in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

$28,352 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k list. UMaine is located in Orono, Maine and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 21 masters’s natural resources and conservation degrees to qualified students.

UMaine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Natural Resources & Conservation Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Maine are $28,352.

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#2

Unity College

Unity, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$9,750 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Unity College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k. Unity College is a small school located in Unity, Maine that handed out 23 masters’s natural resources and conservation degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maine master’s degree natural resources & conservation students whose families make $30-$48k list, Unity has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Natural Resources & Conservation Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Unity are $9,750, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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