2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Wildlife Biology is the 563rd most popular major in the country with 528 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 73 wildlife biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 58 wildlife biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in wildlife biology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their wildlife biology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the Southeast Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Biology in the Southeast Region

1

Lees - McRae College
Banner Elk, North Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lees - McRae College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the Southeast Region list. Banner Elk, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s wildlife biology degrees to 35 students in 2020-2021.

Full Lees - McRae College Wildlife Biology Report

2

Charleston Southern University
Charleston, South Carolina

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Charleston Southern University landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Charleston, South Carolina, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s wildlife biology degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Wildlife Biology at CSU

3

Liberty University
Lynchburg, Virginia

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Liberty University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the Southeast Region list. Liberty University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Lynchburg, Virginia. It awarded 15 bachelors’s wildlife biology degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Wildlife Biology at Liberty University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife 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.