Graduates earn a median $47,260 two years after finishing, more than 32% of master's majors. Measured across 83 US programmes by the Department of Education — real graduate pay, not survey answers.
Financially it is a slower start than most majors at this level — worth planning your borrowing around.
| # | University | 1 yr out | 2 yrs out | 3 yrs out | Graduates/yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Denver cost & debt at this university → | $64,755 | $68,379 | $66,004 | 166 |
| 2 | University of Maryland-College Park cost & debt at this university → | not published | $66,077 | $72,771 | 20 |
| 3 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | $55,619 | $60,433 | $73,926 | 94 |
| 4 | Duke University cost & debt at this university → | not published | $58,221 | $62,755 | 21 |
| 5 | University of Hawaii at Manoa cost & debt at this university → | not published | $57,318 | not published | 13 |
| 6 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee cost & debt at this university → | $48,882 | $51,273 | $57,814 | 11 |
| 7 | North Dakota State University-Main Campus cost & debt at this university → | $45,074 | $50,856 | $56,257 | 6 |
| 8 | Montana State University cost & debt at this university → | not published | $48,432 | not published | 18 |
| 9 | Oregon State University-Cascades Campus | $46,635 | $47,260 | $52,145 | 1 |
| 10 | Oregon State University cost & debt at this university → | $46,635 | $47,260 | $52,145 | 56 |
| 11 | Universidad Ana G. Mendez-Cupey Campus | not published | $43,426 | not published | 13 |
| 12 | University of Idaho cost & debt at this university → | $39,163 | $41,565 | $43,216 | 70 |
It is the median of what real graduates of this exact major earned, taken from tax records two years after they completed. It is not a starting salary, not an average of job adverts, and not a projection. The median master's major in this dataset reports $54,713, so Environmental/Natural Resources Management sits below the middle by $7,453.
Two years is early in a career. Fields with long training pipelines — medicine, law, research — look weaker at this point than they will at ten, while trades and applied technical fields peak sooner. Read a low figure in a long-pipeline subject as "slow start", not "bad degree".
There is no debt figure here on purpose. The Department of Education publishes earnings by field of study but not borrowing, so nobody can honestly tell you the debt of a specific major. Debt is published per institution — that is where our university cost pages carry it.
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Classified by the Department of Education as Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy (CIP 0302). Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard, field-of-study earnings (median earnings of graduates who received federal financial aid, measured 1–3 years after completion). Figures are per major and credential level, pooled across US programmes. Information only, not financial advice.