2021 Best Wildlife Management Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Far Western US Region
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Finding the Best Wildlife Management Schools for Non-Traditional Students
This year's Best Wildlife Management Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Far Western US Region ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a bachelor's degree in wildlife. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent wildlife management programs, but they also offer a lot of support to non-traditional students.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the wildlife management program at the school, affordability, and non-traditional population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Wildlife Schools for Non-Traditional Students list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Develop a broad-based interdisciplinary skill set to solve complex environmental problems like climate change, alternative energy and sustainability with a specialized online degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
Humboldt State University tops the 2021 list of our schools in the Far Western US Region that are best for non-traditional wildlife management students. Humboldt State University is a medium-sized public school located in the remote town of Arcata. In addition to being on our best for non-traditional students list, Humboldt State University has also earned the #2 rank in our Best Colleges for Wildlife Management in the Far Western US Region ranking.
The school has a low student loan default rate of 2.9%. There are approximately 3,740 students at Humboldt State University that take at least one class online. 853 students are part time.
Our rankings recognize University of Nevada - Reno as the #2 school in this year's rankings. UNR is a fairly large public school located in the city of Reno. UNR also made our Best Colleges for Wildlife Management in the Far Western US Region list, coming in at #1.
The student loan default rate at UNR is lower than is typical, just 0.8% of students default in three years. There are approximately 4,563 students at UNR that take at least one class online. About 5,396 of the students at UNR are attending part time.
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 the rest 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).
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