2023 Most Popular Colleges for Wildlife Management in Kentucky

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Kentucky” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Kentucky, there were 37 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,887 and $22,109 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Kentucky” 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.

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Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Kentucky

The colleges and universities below are the best for kentucky wildlife students.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Wildlife Management in Kentucky

1

Murray State University
Murray, Kentucky

#8 overall quality in Kentucky

$41,161 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,026 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Murray State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Kentucky list. This medium-sized school is located in Murray, Kentucky, and it awarded 20 ’s wildlife degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Murray State University Wildlife Management Report

2

Eastern Kentucky University
Richmond, Kentucky

#11 overall quality in Kentucky

$37,738 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,410 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Kentucky University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Kentucky list. This fairly large school is located in Richmond, Kentucky, and it awarded 17 ’s wildlife degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Wildlife Management at Eastern

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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.