2025 Best Wildlife Biology Schools in the Southeast Region
3Colleges in the Southeast Region
66Wildlife Biology Degrees Awarded
Wildlife Biology is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #563 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southeast 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 66 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. We derive our Best Overall Wildlife Biology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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.
The wildlife biology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Wildlife Biology Schools in the Southeast Region.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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Best Schools for Wildlife Biology in the Southeast Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the wildlife biology degree levels they offer.
Every student pursuing a degree in wildlife biology needs to look into Davidson County Community College. DCCC is a small public college located in the rural area of Thomasville. This college ranks 55th out of 93 schools for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were roughly 13 wildlife biology students who graduated with this degree at DCCC in the most recent data year.
Lees - McRae College is a good option for students pursuing a degree in wildlife biology. Lees - McRae College is a fairly small private not-for-profit college located in the rural area of Banner Elk. This college ranks 57th out of 93 schools for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were roughly 33 wildlife biology students who graduated with this degree at Lees - McRae College in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat Liberty University if you wish to pursue a degree in wildlife biology. Liberty University is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Lynchburg. A Best Colleges rank of #265 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Liberty University is a great university overall.
There were about 16 wildlife biology students who graduated with this degree at Liberty University 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. We derive our Best Overall Wildlife Biology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
