2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in Idaho

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Idaho” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Idaho, there were 47 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,988 and $23,569 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 47 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,020 and $24,050 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Idaho” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for idaho bachelor’s degree wildlife students.

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

1

University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho

#3 overall quality in Idaho

$25,155 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,569 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Idaho that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Idaho landed the #1 spot on the list. Moscow, Idaho is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s wildlife degrees to 30 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full U of I Wildlife Management Report

2

Brigham Young University - Idaho
Rexburg, Idaho

#2 overall quality in Idaho

$24,821 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Idaho that were part of this year’s ranking, Brigham Young University - Idaho landed the #2 spot on the list. Rexburg, Idaho is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s wildlife degrees to 17 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full BYU - I Wildlife Management Report

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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

• *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.