2023 Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in the New England Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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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 New England 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 New England region, there were 149 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,287 and $26,777 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in wildlife management. To top this list, a school must have a successful wildlife management program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in the New England Region”.
Top 4 Most Popular Colleges for Wildlife Management in the New England Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. Orono, Maine is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s wildlife degrees to 49 students 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%.
Read more about Wildlife Management at University of Maine
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Unity College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in the New England Region. Unity, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s wildlife degrees to 40 students in 2020-2021.
Full Unity Wildlife Management Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in the New England Region. Located in Kingston, Rhode Island, this fairly large public school handed out 34 diplomas to qualified ’s wildlife students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Rhode Island Wildlife Management Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in the New England Region list. Durham, New Hampshire is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s wildlife degrees to 26 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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 New Hampshire - Main Campus Wildlife Management Report
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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
- *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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