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2023 Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Master's Degree Schools in Connecticut

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$20,325 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$48,625 Avg Salary

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

Natural Resources & Conservation is the #21 most popular major in Connecticut with 388 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

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 Master's Degree Schools in Connecticut ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Connecticut to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for natural resources and conservation students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Master’s Degree Schools in Connecticut

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Master's Degree Colleges.

Best Connecticut Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Natural Resources & Conservation

#1

Yale University

New Haven, CT

Our analysis found Yale University to be the best value school for natural resources and conservation students who want to pursue a master’s degree in Connecticut. Yale is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of New Haven.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Yale are $45,700 a year.

Yale also made our Best Natural Resources & Conservation Master’s Degree Schools in Connecticut list, coming in at #1.

Full Natural Resources & Conservation at Yale University Report

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Connecticut is a great value for natural resources and conservation students working on their master’s degree. UCONN is a very large public school located in the suburb of Storrs.

UCONN graduate students pay an average of $20,325 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UCONN also made our Best Natural Resources & Conservation Master’s Degree Schools in Connecticut list, coming in at #4.

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Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New Hampshire 633
Maine 409
Rhode Island 185
Massachusetts 1,116
Vermont 412

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

Majors Similar to Natural Resources & Conservation

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 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 Lynn Betts.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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