Wildlife Management isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #186 in popularity out of 395 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Wildlife Management Schools in New York ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 56 degrees in wildlife management annually.
Develop a broad-based interdisciplinary skill set to solve complex environmental problems like climate change, alternative energy and sustainability with a specialized online degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Wildlife Management Schools in New York ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Develop a broad-based interdisciplinary skill set to solve complex environmental problems like climate change, alternative energy and sustainability with a specialized online degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the wildlife degree levels they offer.
Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in wildlife management. Paul Smith's College is a fairly small private not-for-profit college located in the rural area of Paul Smiths.
Degree recipients from the wildlife management degree program at Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science make $5,143 more than the typical college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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