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2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Montana

2 Ranked Colleges
11 Degrees Awarded
$32,200 Avg Cost*
Schools for a Master's Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Montana

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Montana” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Montana, there were 111 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,601 and $25,979 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,873 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Montana” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Montana

The colleges and universities below are the best for montana master’s degree wildlife students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in Montana

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Montana State University
Bozeman, Montana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montana State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Montana list. Montana State University is a fairly large school located in Bozeman, Montana that handed out 8 masters’s wildlife degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Wildlife Management at Montana State University

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The University of Montana
Missoula, Montana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Montana. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Montana list. Located in Missoula, Montana, this fairly large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s wildlife students in 2020-2021.

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