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2023 Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Bachelor's Degree Schools in Kentucky

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$10,538 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$32,742 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Natural Resources & Conservation Bachelor's Degree School for You

Natural Resources & Conservation is the #28 most popular major in Kentucky with 149 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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 Natural Resources & Conservation Bachelor's Degree Schools in Kentucky ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Kentucky to see which bachelor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for natural resources and conservation students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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 Resources & Conservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky

Check out the natural resources and conservation bachelor's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Kentucky Schools for Affordable Quality for a Bachelor's in Natural Resources & Conservation

#1

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY

Our analysis found University of Kentucky to be the best value school for natural resources and conservation students who want to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Kentucky. Located in the city of Lexington, UK is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UK are $12,610 a year.

UK did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Natural Resources & Conservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky list.

Read full report on Natural Resources & Conservation at University of Kentucky

Out of the 3 schools in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, Murray State University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the remote town of Murray, Murray State is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

Murray State undergraduate students pay an average of $9,252 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Out of the 3 schools in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Kentucky University landed the # 3 spot on the list. Eastern is a large public school located in the town of Richmond.

Eastern undergraduate students pay an average of $9,752 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Natural Resources & Conservation at Eastern Kentucky University Report

Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
North Carolina 1,277
West Virginia 708
Florida 1,320
Virginia 853
Arkansas 161
Mississippi 190
South Carolina 255
Louisiana 191
Alabama 365
Georgia 378
Tennessee 320

Natural Resources & Conservation Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Natural Resources Conservation 22,254
Natural Resource Management 2,933
Wildlife Management 2,449
Forestry 2,233
Fisheries Sciences 483
Natural Resources Conservation (Other) 151

Related Major Annual Graduates
Computer & Information Sciences 254,454
Engineering 198,468
Biological & Biomedical Sciences 177,778
Engineering Technologies 85,188
Mathematics & Statistics 52,396

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 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 Lynn Betts.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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