2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Biology in the Middle Atlantic Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Wildlife Biology is the 563rd most popular major in the country with 499 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 57 wildlife biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 56 wildlife biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,660 and $23,761 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in wildlife biology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in wildlife biology.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Biology in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Keystone College
La Plume, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Keystone College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in La Plume, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 8 degrees to qualified bachelors’s wildlife biology students in 2021-2022.

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 Keystone College Wildlife Biology Report

2

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Syracuse, New York

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Syracuse, New York, and it awarded 33 bachelors’s wildlife biology degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Wildlife Biology Report

3

Frostburg State University
Frostburg, Maryland

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Frostburg State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Frostburg State is a small public school situated in Frostburg, Maryland. It awarded 15 bachelors’s wildlife biology degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Wildlife Biology at Frostburg State University

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.