an associate degree in forestry is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #129 out of 328 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Forestry Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 87 associate degrees in forestry to qualified students.
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Early-Career Earnings
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on forestry students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other forestry students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt forestry students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized forestry related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for forestry students working on their associate degree.
The forestry school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Forestry Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region.
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Pennsylvania College of Technology is one of the best schools in the country for getting an associate degree in forestry. Penn College is a small public college located in the small city of Williamsport.
After graduation, forestry associate recipients typically make an average of $36,719 in their early careers.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
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