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2023 Best Value Natural Resource Management Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$20,245 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$33,891 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Natural Resource Management School for You

In 2020-2021, 71 degrees and certificates were awarded to natural resource management students who went to a North Carolina college or university. This makes it the #165 most popular major in the state.

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.

The Best Value Natural Resource Management Schools in North Carolina ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 4 schools in North Carolina to see which ones offered the best value programs for resource management 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 Natural Resource Management Schools in North Carolina

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for resource management majors pursuing a .

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality in Natural Resource Management

$4,367 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Western Carolina University the best value school in North Carolina for natural resource management students. WCU is a large public school located in the distant town of Cullowhee.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at WCU are $4,367 a year. The average amount in student loans that resource management majors at WCU take out is $26,000.

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The excellent programs at North Carolina State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best natural resource management schools in North Carolina. NC State is a very large public school located in the city of Raleigh.

NC State undergraduate students pay an average of $9,131 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

NC State also took the #5 spot in our Best Natural Resource Management Schools in North Carolina rankings.

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Out of the 4 schools in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Carolina at Wilmington landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the medium-sized city of Wilmington, UNCW is a public college with a large student population.

UNCW undergraduate students pay an average of $7,238 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, UNCW is in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Natural Resource Management Schools in North Carolina list.

Full Natural Resource Management at University of North Carolina at Wilmington Report

#4

Duke University

Durham, NC
$60,244 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Duke University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best natural resource management schools in North Carolina. Duke is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Durham.

Duke undergraduate students pay an average of $60,244 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, Duke is ranked #1 for overall quality for resource management in North Carolina.

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Best Value Natural Resource Management Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Natural Resource Management Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 43
Virginia 147
Florida 143
Tennessee 56
South Carolina 13
Louisiana 40
Arkansas 9
Alabama 37
Mississippi 3
West Virginia 165

One of 5 majors within the area of study, natural resource management has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Resource Management

Related Major Annual Graduates
Natural Resources Conservation 22,254
Wildlife Management 2,449
Forestry 2,233
Fisheries Sciences 483
Natural Resources Conservation (Other) 151

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 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 Brian M. Powell.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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