Wildlife Management is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #139 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Wisconsin to determine which ones were the best for wildlife management students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 88 bachelor's degrees in wildlife management to qualified students.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to wildlife management students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other wildlife management students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt wildlife management students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized wildlife management related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for wildlife management students working on their bachelor's degree.
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 Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in Wisconsin list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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Featured Wildlife Management Programs
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.
University of Wisconsin - Madison is a great decision for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in wildlife management. Located in the large city of Madison, UW - Madison is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the wildlife program state that they receive average early career wages of $21,448.
Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in wildlife management has to look into University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. Located in the town of Stevens Point, UW - Stevens Point is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.
Those wildlife management students who get their bachelor's degree from University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point make $2,338 more than the average wildlife graduate.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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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