2023 Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Maine for a Bachelor’s

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 “Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Maine for a Bachelor’s” 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 Maine, there were 89 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,021 and $26,850 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 85 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,463 and $30,985 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Maine for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in wildlife management. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular wildlife management programs in the United States.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Maine for a Bachelor’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in Maine

1

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

#6 overall quality in Maine

$31,484 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,700 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Maine for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Maine is a fairly large public school situated in Orono, Maine. It awarded 45 bachelors’s wildlife degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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 University of Maine Wildlife Management Report

2

Unity College
Unity, Maine

#7 overall quality in Maine

$24,558 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,000 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Maine for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Unity College landed the #2 spot on the list. Unity College is located in Unity, Maine and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 40 bachelors’s wildlife degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at Unity

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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.