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2022 Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region

4 Ranked Colleges
152 Degrees Awarded
$22,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor's in the New England Region

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 a Bachelor’s in the New England 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 New England region, there were 154 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,100 and $26,755 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 152 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in wildlife management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality wildlife management programs that also have a lower cost than 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in the New England Region

#1

Unity College

Unity, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Unity College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region list. Unity, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s wildlife degrees to 41 students in 2019-2020.

Unity did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Unity is $26,080 for new england region bachelor’s degree wildlife students.

Full Unity Wildlife Management Report

#2

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #2 spot on the list. UMaine is a fairly large public school situated in Orono, Maine. It awarded 35 bachelors’s wildlife degrees in 2019-2020.

UMaine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Maine is $17,558 for new england region bachelor’s degree wildlife students.

The low student loan default rate of 4.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full UMaine Wildlife Management Report

#3

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Rhode Island is a fairly large public school situated in Kingston, Rhode Island. It awarded 44 bachelors’s wildlife degrees in 2019-2020.

URI also took the #3 spot in our “Best Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. It costs about $20,607 for new england region bachelor’s degree wildlife students per year to attend University of Rhode Island.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 4.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at URI

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region. University of New Hampshire - Main Campus is a fairly large school located in Durham, New Hampshire that handed out 32 bachelors’s wildlife degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our new england region bachelor’s degree wildlife students list, UNH has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. It costs about $24,067 for new england region bachelor’s degree wildlife students per year to attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UNH Wildlife Management Report

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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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