2024 Best Wildlife Biology Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
3Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
201Wildlife Biology Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in wildlife biology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #563 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for wildlife biology students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 201 degrees in wildlife biology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of wildlife biology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for wildlife biology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Wildlife Biology Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Wildlife Biology in the Rocky Mountains Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the wildlife biology degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools in Wildlife Biology
Every student who is interested in wildlife biology has to check out Colorado State University - Fort Collins. Located in the midsize city of Fort Collins, Colorado State is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 4th out of 33 colleges for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were about 130 wildlife biology students who graduated with this degree at Colorado State in the most recent data year.
Brigham Young University - Provo is a great choice for students interested in a degree in wildlife biology. Located in the midsize city of Provo, BYU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #100 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means BYU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 28 wildlife biology students who graduated with this degree at BYU in the most recent data year.
University of Wyoming is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in wildlife biology. Located in the town of Laramie, UW is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 1st out of 7 colleges for overall quality in the state of Wyoming.
There were about 30 wildlife biology students who graduated with this degree at UW in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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Your choice of wildlife biology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for wildlife biology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
