2023 Most Focused Colleges for Wildlife Management in Alaska

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Alaska” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 2,449 people earned their degree in wildlife management, making the major the 186th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, wildlife management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $26,447 and had an average of $23,043 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 34 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Alaska” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in wildlife management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their wildlife management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Alaska” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Schools Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Alaska

The colleges and universities below are the best for alaska wildlife students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Wildlife Management in Alaska

1

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

$45,077 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,561 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Fairbanks, Alaska, this medium-sized public school awarded 34 degrees to qualified ’s wildlife students in 2020-2021.

Full University of Alaska Fairbanks Wildlife Management Report

2

University of Alaska Southeast
Juneau, Alaska

#3 overall quality in Alaska

$54,280 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,743 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Southeast. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Alaska. UAS is a small school located in Juneau, Alaska that handed out 0 ’s wildlife degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Wildlife Management at UAS

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nicholas A. Tonelli.