2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in Montana
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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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 Montana, there were 111 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,601 and $25,979 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $83,529 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Montana” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in wildlife management. That schools that top this list have a program in wildlife management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Montana
The colleges and universities below are the best for montana doctor’s degree wildlife students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in Montana
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Montana that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Montana landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Missoula, Montana, and it awarded 8 doctorate’s wildlife degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Wildlife Management at The University of Montana
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Montana that were part of this year’s ranking, Montana State University landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Bozeman, Montana, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s wildlife degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full MSU Bozeman Wildlife Management Report
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- 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%.
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- *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.
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