2023 Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate

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 the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” 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 Southeast region, there were 693 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,747 and $22,549 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree 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 the Southeast Region for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree wildlife students.

Top 3 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in the Southeast Region

1

University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

#9 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Florida. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate list. UF is located in Gainesville, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 8 doctorate’s wildlife degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Florida Wildlife Management Report

2

Clemson University
Clemson, South Carolina

#17 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clemson University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate list. Clemson, South Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s wildlife degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%.

Read more about Wildlife Management at Clemson

3

Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Mississippi State University is a large public school situated in Mississippi State, Mississippi. It awarded 74 doctorate’s wildlife degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at Mississippi State University

• Most Popular Doctor’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.