2023 Most Popular Colleges for Wildlife Management in Minnesota

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Minnesota” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Minnesota, there were 35 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,521 and $19,500 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Minnesota” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in wildlife management. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in wildlife management.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Minnesota

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Minnesota”.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Wildlife Management in Minnesota

1

Bemidji State University
Bemidji, Minnesota

$43,896 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,533 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bemidji State University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Minnesota. Bemidji State University is a small school located in Bemidji, Minnesota that handed out 27 ’s wildlife degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at Bemidji State University

2

Vermilion Community College
Ely, Minnesota

$18,500 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vermilion Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Minnesota. This small school is located in Ely, Minnesota, and it awarded 8 ’s wildlife degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Wildlife Management at Vermilion Community College

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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.