2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conservation Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region

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In 2020-2021, 309 people earned their degree in conservation biology, making the major the 694th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 80 conservation biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 62 conservation biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conservation Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in conservation biology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in conservation biology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conservation Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conservation Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Conservation Biology in the Great Lakes Region

1

Lake Superior State University
Sault Ste Marie, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lake Superior State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conservation Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan, this small public school awarded 8 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s conservation biology students in 2020-2021.

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2

Lincoln College
Lincoln, Illinois

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conservation Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lincoln College landed the #2 spot on the list. Lincoln College is a small school located in Lincoln, Illinois that handed out 3 bachelors’s conservation biology degrees in 2020-2021.

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3

Calvin University
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Calvin University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conservation Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region. Calvin University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It awarded 5 bachelors’s conservation biology degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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4

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

#6 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conservation Biology Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Madison, Wisconsin, this large public school handed out 46 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s conservation biology students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Conservation Biology

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 Ernst Haeckel.