2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the New England Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the New England Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 528 people earned their degree in wildlife biology, making the major the 563rd most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 47 wildlife biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 44 wildlife biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in wildlife biology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in wildlife biology.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the New England Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Biology in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Unity College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the New England Region list. Unity College is located in Unity, Maine and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 18 bachelors’s wildlife biology degrees to qualified students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Vermont. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the New England Region list. UVM is a public institution located in Burlington, Vermont. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 26 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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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
- *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.