2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Biology in the Plains States Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Plains States 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 Plains States region, there were 37 wildlife biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 35 wildlife biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,724 and $22,887 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in wildlife biology. That schools that top this list have a program in wildlife biology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree wildlife biology students.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Biology in the Plains States Region

1

Friends University
Wichita, Kansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Friends University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the Plains States Region list. Friends University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Wichita, Kansas. It awarded 0 bachelors’s wildlife biology degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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2

Hastings College
Hastings, Nebraska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hastings College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the Plains States Region. Hastings College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Hastings, Nebraska. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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3

Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas

Top 15% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kansas State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the Plains States Region list. Kansas State University is a fairly large school located in Manhattan, Kansas that handed out 27 bachelors’s wildlife biology degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read full report on Wildlife Biology at Kansas State University

4

University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

Top 15% overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Biology Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Dakota landed the #4 spot on the list. University of North Dakota is located in Grand Forks, North Dakota and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s wildlife biology degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Wildlife Biology at University of North Dakota

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.