2022 Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Wildlife Management is the 181st most popular major in the country with 2,331 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, wildlife management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $24,370 and had an average of $20,895 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 78 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,450 and $26,952 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 76 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in wildlife management. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great wildlife management programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the wildlife management program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree wildlife students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management (Income $48-$75k) in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,218 Average Net Price

$31,647 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Orono, Maine, this fairly large public school handed out 35 degrees to qualified bachelors’s wildlife students in 2019-2020.

UMaine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The yearly cost to attend UMaine is $17,218 for maine bachelor’s degree wildlife students whose families make $48-$75k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at University of Maine

#2

Unity College

Unity, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$25,363 Average Net Price

$25,658 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Unity College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k list. Unity is located in Unity, Maine and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 41 bachelors’s wildlife degrees to qualified students.

Unity not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The estimated yearly cost for Unity is $25,363 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Wildlife students whose families make $48-$75k.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management (Income $48-$75k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management (Income $48-$75k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nicholas A. Tonelli.

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