2022 Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Master’s in Michigan

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 a Master’s in Michigan” 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 Michigan, there were 90 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,600 and $27,919 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,608 and $41,198 respectively.

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

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the wildlife management program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 a Master’s in Michigan” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Master’s in Michigan

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Master’s in Michigan.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in Michigan

#1

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan

#1 in overall quality

$37,056 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Michigan State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Master’s in Michigan. East Lansing, Michigan is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s wildlife degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

Michigan State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Wildlife Management Master’s Degree Schools in Michigan” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Michigan State are $37,056, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Michigan State 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.

Credits

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

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