2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Wildlife Management is the 186th most popular major in the country with 2,449 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, wildlife management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $26,447 and had an average of $23,043 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 245 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,120 and $23,552 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 50 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,077 and $19,490 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in wildlife management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their wildlife management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree wildlife students.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in the Great Lakes Region

1

Hocking College
Nelsonville, Ohio

$22,254 Average Early-Career Earnings

$12,125 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hocking College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Great Lakes Region. Nelsonville, Ohio is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s wildlife degrees to 41 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at Hocking Technical College

2

Zane State College
Zanesville, Ohio

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Zane State College landed the #2 spot on the list. Zane State College is a small public school situated in Zanesville, Ohio. It awarded 9 associates’s wildlife degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at Zane State College

3

Shawnee Community College
Ullin, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Shawnee Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Ullin, Illinois is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s wildlife degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Wildlife Management at Shawnee Community College

• Most Focused 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.