2023 Best Value Forestry Schools in South Carolina
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Forestry School for You
With 55 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, forestry is the #125 most popular major in South Carolina.
It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Forestry Schools in South Carolina ranking.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
Best Forestry School
Our 2023 rankings named Clemson University the best value school in South Carolina for forestry students. Clemson is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Clemson.
Clemson undergraduate students pay an average of $15,558 in in-state tuition and fees each year. The average amount in student loans that forestry majors at Clemson take out is $27,000.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Clemson is ranked #2 for overall quality for forestry in South Carolina.
Read full report on Forestry at Clemson University
Request InformationBest Value Forestry Colleges in the Southeast Region
Explore all the Best Value Forestry Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Georgia | 103 |
| Virginia | 121 |
| North Carolina | 150 |
| Florida | 117 |
| Tennessee | 26 |
| Kentucky | 14 |
| Louisiana | 39 |
| Arkansas | 28 |
| Alabama | 56 |
| Mississippi | 82 |
| West Virginia | 50 |
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Majors Related to Forestry
One of 5 majors within the area of study, forestry has other similar majors worth exploring.
Most Popular Majors Related to Forestry
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Natural Resources Conservation | 22,254 |
| Natural Resource Management | 2,933 |
| Wildlife Management | 2,449 |
| Fisheries Sciences | 483 |
| Natural Resources Conservation (Other) | 151 |
Notes and References
*These values are for the top school only.
- 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).
- Credit for the banner image above goes to Bureau of Land Management.
More about our data sources and methodologies.