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2022 Best Vallue Wildlife Schools for a Doctorate in Montana For Those Making Over $110k

2 Ranked Colleges
5 Degrees Awarded
$22,300 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Vallue Wildlife Schools for a Doctorate in Montana For Those Making Over $110k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Vallue Wildlife Schools for a Doctorate in Montana For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Wildlife Management is the 181st most popular major in the country with 2,331 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, wildlife management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $24,370 and had an average of $20,895 in loans still to pay off.

Across Montana, there were 94 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,200 and $22,746 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,500 and $58,091 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Vallue Wildlife Schools for a Doctorate in Montana For Those Making Over $110k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in wildlife management. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent wildlife management programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the wildlife management program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Vallue Wildlife Schools for a Doctorate in Montana For Those Making Over $110k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Vallue Wildlife Schools for a Doctorate in Montana For Those Making Over $110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for montana doctor’s degree wildlife students whose families make more than $110k.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management (Income Over $110k) in Montana

#1

Montana State University

Bozeman, Montana
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Vallue Wildlife Schools for a Doctorate in Montana For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Montana State University landed the #1 spot on the list. MSU Bozeman is located in Bozeman, Montana and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 doctorate’s wildlife degrees to qualified students.

MSU Bozeman also took the #1 spot in our “Best Wildlife Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in Montana” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Montana State University are $21,446.

Read more about Wildlife Management at MSU Bozeman

#2

The University of Montana

Missoula, Montana
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Montana. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Vallue Wildlife Schools for a Doctorate in Montana For Those Making Over $110k list. The University of Montana is a medium-sized school located in Missoula, Montana that handed out 4 doctorate’s wildlife degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UM, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Wildlife Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in Montana” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UM are $23,242, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Wildlife Management at The University of Montana

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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