2025 Best Wildlife Biology Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
3Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
192Wildlife Biology Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in wildlife biology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #563 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for wildlife biology students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 192 degrees in wildlife biology annually.
Your choice of wildlife biology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for wildlife biology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Wildlife Biology Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Wildlife Biology in the Rocky Mountains Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the wildlife biology degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools in Wildlife Biology
Any student who is interested in wildlife biology needs to look into Colorado State University - Fort Collins. Located in the midsize city of Fort Collins, Colorado State is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #178 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Colorado State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 128 wildlife biology students who graduated with this degree at Colorado State in the most recent data year.
University of Wyoming is a great choice for students interested in a degree in wildlife biology. Located in the remote town of Laramie, UW is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 1st out of 7 colleges for overall quality in the state of Wyoming.
There were roughly 32 wildlife biology students who graduated with this degree at UW in the most recent year we have data available.
Brigham Young University - Provo is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in wildlife biology. Located in the city of Provo, BYU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 11 colleges for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were approximately 26 wildlife biology students who graduated with this degree at BYU in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
Your choice of wildlife biology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for wildlife biology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
