2022 Best Value Wildlife Schools for an Associate in Ohio

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Ohio” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 2,331 people earned their degree in wildlife management, making the major the 181st most popular in the United States. 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 Ohio, there were 80 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,300 and $19,121 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 56 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,171 and $20,046 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great wildlife management programs and 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 Value Wildlife Schools for an Associate in Ohio” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Wildlife Schools for an Associate in Ohio

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Wildlife Schools for an Associate in Ohio.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in Ohio

#1

Hocking College

Nelsonville, Ohio

#1 in overall quality

$12,793 Average Net Price

$26,353 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Wildlife Schools for an Associate in Ohio that were part of this year’s ranking, Hocking College landed the #1 spot on the list. Hocking College is located in Nelsonville, Ohio and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 49 associates’s wildlife degrees to qualified students.

Hocking Technical College also made our “Best Wildlife Management Associate Degree Schools in Ohio” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Hocking College is $12,793 for Ohio Associate Degree Wildlife students.

Read more about Wildlife Management at Hocking College

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nicholas A. Tonelli.

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