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2023 Best Value Forestry Schools in Texas

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$11,402 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$37,014 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Forestry School for You

With 59 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, forestry is the #216 most popular major in Texas.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Forestry Schools in Texas to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in Texas to see which ones offered the best value programs for forestry students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.

2023 Best Value Forestry Schools in Texas

Check out the forestry programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Texas Schools for Affordable Quality in Forestry

$12,204 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Texas A&M University - College Station to be the best value school for forestry students who want to pursue a degree in Texas. Located in the medium-sized city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Texas A&M College Station undergraduate students pay an average of $12,204 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Texas A&M College Station is ranked #4 for overall quality for forestry in Texas.

Full Forestry at Texas A&M University - College Station Report

$10,600 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Stephen F Austin State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best forestry schools in Texas. SFASU is a fairly large public school located in the remote town of Nacogdoches.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at SFASU are $10,600 per year. Forestry majors at SFASU take out an average of $23,950 in student loans while working on their egree.

Full Forestry at Stephen F Austin State University Report

Best Value Forestry Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Value Forestry Schools in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 64
Oklahoma 6
New Mexico 8

One of 5 majors within the area of study, forestry has other similar majors worth exploring.

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 averages are for the top 2 schools 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.

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