2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Mississippi

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Mississippi” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 2,449 people earned their degree in wildlife management, making the major the 186th most popular in the United States. 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 Mississippi, there were 81 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,924 and $27,000 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 7 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,787 and $15,790 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Mississippi” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in wildlife management. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in wildlife management.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Mississippi

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Mississippi”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in Mississippi

1

East Mississippi Community College
Scooba, Mississippi

#11 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Mississippi Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Mississippi list. EMCC is located in Scooba, Mississippi and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 associates’s wildlife degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at EMCC

2

Holmes Community College
Goodman, Mississippi

#9 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Holmes Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Mississippi list. Goodman, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s wildlife degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at Holmes Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in the Southeast Region
• 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.