2022 Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Pennsylvania, there were 882 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,785 and $23,931 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent natural resources and conservation programs, but they also 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 and conservation program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Doctorate in Pennsylvania” 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 Doctorate in Pennsylvania

The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania doctor’s degree natural resources & conservation students.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources & Conservation in Pennsylvania

#1

Drexel University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$37,074 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Drexel University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania list. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s natural resources and conservation degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Drexel did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Natural Resources & Conservation Doctor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Drexel are $37,074, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Natural Resources & Conservation at Drexel

#1

Pennsylvania State University - University Park

University Park, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$38,728 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Pennsylvania State University - University Park landed the #1 spot on the list.

Penn State University Park also made our “Best Natural Resources & Conservation Doctor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Pennsylvania State University - University Park are $38,728.

Read more about Natural Resources & Conservation at Penn State University Park

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources & Conservation in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources & Conservation

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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