2022 Best Value Colleges for Wildlife Management (Income $48-$75k) in Minnesota

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Wildlife Schools in Minnesota For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Minnesota, there were 45 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $15,881 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality wildlife management programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the wildlife management program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 in Minnesota For Those Making $48-$75k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Wildlife Schools in Minnesota For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Wildlife Schools in Minnesota For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Wildlife Management (Income $48-$75k) in Minnesota

#1

Vermilion Community College

Ely, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$14,519 Average Net Price

$30,950 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Wildlife Schools in Minnesota For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Vermilion Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Vermilion Community College is a small public school situated in Ely, Minnesota. It awarded 20 ’s wildlife degrees in 2019-2020.

Vermilion Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Wildlife Management Schools in Minnesota” list. The yearly cost to attend Vermilion Community College is $14,519 for Minnesota Wildlife students whose families make $48-$75k.

Read more about Wildlife Management at Vermilion Community College

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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.

Credits

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

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