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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$24,162 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$48,625 Avg Salary

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

In 2020-2021, natural resources and conservation students earned 459 degrees and certificates from a Colorado school, making the subject the 10th in the state.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. 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 Resources & Conservation Master's Degree Schools in Colorado ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in Colorado 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.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

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

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

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

Our 2023 rankings named Colorado State University - Fort Collins the best value school in Colorado for natural resources and conservation students working on their master’s degree. Colorado State is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Fort Collins.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Colorado State are $13,313 per year.

Colorado State also made our Best Natural Resources & Conservation Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado list, coming in at #2.

Read full report on Natural Resources & Conservation at Colorado State University - Fort Collins

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Colorado Boulder. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado list. Located in the midsize city of Boulder, CU - Boulder is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at CU - Boulder are $13,901 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, CU - Boulder is ranked #3 for overall quality for natural resources and conservation in Colorado.

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#3

University of Denver

Denver, CO

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Denver. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado list. Located in the large city of Denver, DU is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

DU graduate students pay an average of $53,943 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

DU not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best Natural Resources & Conservation Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado list.

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The excellent master’s degree programs at Western Colorado University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value natural resources and conservation schools in Colorado. Located in the town of Gunnison, Western is a public school with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Western are $15,490 per year.

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Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Utah 40
Montana 82
Idaho 78
Wyoming 8

Natural Resources & Conservation Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Natural Resources Conservation 3,724
Natural Resource Management 1,073
Forestry 486
Wildlife Management 323
Fisheries Sciences 106
Natural Resources Conservation (Other) 32

Related Major Annual Graduates
Engineering 61,791
Computer & Information Sciences 60,971
Biological & Biomedical Sciences 28,851
Mathematics & Statistics 15,127
Physical Sciences 12,705

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 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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