2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in the Far Western US Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 a Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Far Western US region, there were 340 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,863 and $19,979 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 3 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree wildlife students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in the Far Western US Region

1

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Far Western US Region. University of Alaska Fairbanks is located in Fairbanks, Alaska and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 masters’s wildlife degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Wildlife Management at University of Alaska Fairbanks

2

Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oregon State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Far Western US Region list. Located in Corvallis, Oregon, this large public school handed out 8 degrees to qualified masters’s wildlife students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Oregon State Wildlife Management Report

3

University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

#11 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Far Western US Region. Seattle, Washington is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s wildlife degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Washington - Seattle Campus Wildlife Management Report

• Most Focused Master’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.