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Most Popular Schools for Natural Resource Economics Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the application of economic concepts and methods to the analysis of issues such as air and water pollution, land use planning, waste disposal, invasive species and pest control, conservation policies, and related environmental problems. Includes instruction in cost-benefit analysis, environmental impact assessment, evaluation and assessment of alternative resource management strategies, policy evaluation and monitoring, and descriptive and analytic tools for studying how environmental developments affect the economic system.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 University of Rhode Island 30 1% $30,351
2 University of New Hampshire-Main Campus 20 1% $33,750
3 Michigan State University 19 0% $28,862
4 University of Delaware 5 0% $29,342
5 The University of Tennessee-Knoxville 4 0% $31,510
6 Baldwin Wallace University 3 0% $47,528
7 Utah State University 2 0% $20,504
8 New Mexico State University-Main Campus 1 0% $21,380
9 Tuskegee University 1 0% $39,383
10 Malone University 1 0% $44,660

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Natural Resource Economics program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.