2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Wisconsin

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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 Wisconsin, there were 97 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,786 and $25,806 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 88 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,390 and $27,888 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Wisconsin” 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.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Wisconsin

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Wisconsin”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in Wisconsin

1

University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
Stevens Point, Wisconsin

#21 overall quality in Wisconsin

$26,124 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,806 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Wisconsin list. Located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, this medium-sized public school handed out 65 degrees to qualified bachelors’s wildlife students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point

2

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

#1 overall quality in Wisconsin

$21,448 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Wisconsin list. Madison, Wisconsin is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s wildlife degrees to 23 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in the Great Lakes Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s 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.