2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in Tennessee

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Tennessee, there were 71 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,850 and $18,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee

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

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

#1

The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Knoxville, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$31,798 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee list. Located in Knoxville, Tennessee, this large public school handed out 6 degrees to qualified masters’s wildlife students in 2019-2020.

UT Knoxville also made our “Best Wildlife Management Master’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at UT Knoxville are $31,798, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Wildlife Management at UT Knoxville

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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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