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2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in the Great Lakes Region

1 Ranked Colleges
57 Degrees Awarded
$12,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Wildlife Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Wildlife Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region” 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 the Great Lakes region, there were 258 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,850 and $22,319 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 57 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,508 and $17,812 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality wildlife management programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the wildlife management program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Wildlife Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Wildlife Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree wildlife students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Hocking College

Nelsonville, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hocking College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Wildlife Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region list. Hocking College is a small public school situated in Nelsonville, Ohio. It awarded 49 associates’s wildlife degrees in 2019-2020.

Hocking Technical College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Wildlife Management Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Hocking College is $12,793 for Great Lakes Region Associate Degree Wildlife 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

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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