2022 Best Value Wildlife Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Southeast Region” 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 the Southeast region, there were 594 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,844 and $20,545 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 45 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great wildlife management programs and cost less that 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank Wildlife Management Schools

The wildlife school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Wildlife Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region”.

In addition to College Factual’s rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Wildlife Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

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

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

#1

Haywood Community College

Clyde, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$5,780 Average Net Price

$28,236 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Wildlife Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Haywood Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Haywood Community College is a small school located in Clyde, North Carolina that handed out 19 associates’s wildlife degrees in 2019-2020.

Haywood Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Wildlife Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $5,780 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Wildlife students per year to attend Haywood Community College.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Haywood Community College Wildlife Management Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management

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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