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2023 Best Value Natural Resource Management Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$10,644 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$33,926 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Natural Resource Management School for You

With 8 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, natural resource management is the #229 most popular major in California.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Natural Resource Management Schools in California ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in California 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.

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 Resource Management Schools in California

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Natural Resource Management Colleges.

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality in Natural Resource Management

$7,218 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named California State University - Monterey Bay the best value school in California for natural resource management students. Located in the suburb of Seaside, CSUMB is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at CSUMB are $7,218 per year.

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$14,070 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of California - Santa Cruz is a great value for natural resource management students. Located in the city of Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz are $14,070 a year.

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Best Value Natural Resource Management Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Natural Resource Management Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Washington 0
Oregon 79
Hawaii 19

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

Related Major Annual Graduates
Natural Resources Conservation 3,724
Forestry 486
Wildlife Management 323
Fisheries Sciences 106
Natural Resources Conservation (Other) 32

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 Brian M. Powell.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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