Bachelor's · Syracuse, New York
Is Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 4.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $53,631
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $70,467
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $20,250
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $78k (likely $78k – $95k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $33k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.2 years (likely 3.5–5.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $56k (likely −$23k – $134k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $453k (likely $283k – $641k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 72%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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AP classes
- AP Biology
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Other majors at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
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- Landscape Architecture (Bachelor's)$59,480
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- Natural Resources Conservation and Research (Bachelor's)$49,489
- Natural Resources Conservation and Research (Associate's)$46,689
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Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy at other schools in New York
- Marist University$58,610
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