Natural Resource Management is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #127 most popular master's degree program in the country. 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 Natural Resource Management Master's Degree Schools in North Carolina ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 38 master's degrees in natural resource management during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's 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 many resources a school devotes to natural resource management students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of natural resource management students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
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 natural resource management students go into to obtain their master's 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 natural resource management related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for natural resource management students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Natural Resource Management Master's Degree Schools in North Carolina ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Learn to fit environmental standards into your business practices when you earn your sustainability and environmental compliance MBA at Southern New Hampshire University.
Duke University is a great option for students interested in a master's degree in natural resource management. Located in the city of Durham, Duke is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.
Students who graduate with their master's from the resource management program report average early career income of $69,905.
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).
