Business & management

Natural Resources Management and Policy

Hardin-Simmons University · Abilene, TX

Medium evidenceMatched peers12 institutions · related subjectsSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$31,686Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid
Annual credentials awarded4Average of available recent award years; not the earnings sample size.

Earnings context

One career stage.
A clearer comparison.

USD · Master's · 2 years after completion
Same source release. National references exclude this degree.

Selected degree estimate$56,986
Same subject · national$47,846
Business & management · national$63,005

Behind the number

Your comparison group.

Medium evidence

Related subjects at 12 matched peer institutions · master's

Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $49,520–$65,146.

Historical earnings archive. College Scorecard legacy FOS archive (file dated 2022-01-19; cohorts vary). Do not interpret this as today's graduate salary. Further study and career changes are not modelled by this early-career figure.

Master's outcomes · 2 years after completion
Institution & subjectReported earnings
Centenary UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$79,755
American International CollegeBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$52,107
Thomas CollegeBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$49,883
Midway UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$48,432
Davenport UniversityAccounting and Related Services, Business Administration, Management and Operations$60,589
Texas Lutheran UniversityAccounting and Related Services$61,218
Thomas More UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$70,456
Oklahoma Christian UniversityAccounting and Related Services, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Other, Finance and Financial Management Services, Human Resources Management and Services$65,612
West Virginia Wesleyan CollegeBusiness/Commerce, General$38,871
Shorter UniversityAccounting and Related Services, Business Administration, Management and Operations$53,382
University of Mary Hardin-BaylorBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$64,990
Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico-MayaguezBusiness Administration, Management and Operations, Finance and Financial Management Services, Human Resources Management and Services · shared campus reporting$22,420
How matching & uncertainty work

We first look for the same subject code (or exact subject name), qualification, country, currency, source release and earnings horizon. Peer institutions are matched using admissions selectivity, completion rates, undergraduate size and institution type, with a small preference for the same region. These are institutional proxies, not a ranking of programme quality.

If subject-matched peers are sparse, we try related subjects at closely matched universities, related degrees at this university, then an explicitly labelled national reference. We never multiply a salary by a university prestige score.

Peer and national estimates give each reporting institution one vote, after taking the median of its related programmes. Shared branch-campus outcomes count once. The middle-half range describes variation between reporting institutions. It is not an individual salary range or a statistical confidence interval.

Evidence labels describe match quality and coverage, not validated prediction accuracy. Admissions and size are undergraduate institutional measures, so graduate-degree comparisons are especially approximate.

Historical cohort outcomes are not promised salaries or a causal effect of attending this programme. College Scorecard earnings cover eligible federal-aid recipients, not every graduate or international student. Source definitions ↗