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2022 Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

5 Ranked Colleges
143 Degrees Awarded
$14,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor's in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” 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 the Plains States region, there were 175 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,450 and $20,104 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 143 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in wildlife management. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent wildlife management programs, but they also cost less that 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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Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

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

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

#1

Valley City State University

Valley City, North Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Valley City State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in Valley City, North Dakota, this small public school handed out 14 degrees to qualified bachelors’s wildlife students in 2019-2020.

Valley City State University also took the #2 spot in our “Best Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $11,981 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Wildlife students with aid per year to attend Valley City State University.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at Valley City State University

#2

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid list. This fairly large school is located in Brookings, South Dakota, and it awarded 45 bachelors’s wildlife degrees in 2019-2020.

South Dakota State also made our “Best Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for South Dakota State is $19,252 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Wildlife students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Wildlife Management at South Dakota State University

#3

Missouri Western State University

Saint Joseph, Missouri

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Missouri Western State University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid. This small school is located in Saint Joseph, Missouri, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s wildlife degrees in 2019-2020.

Missouri Western also made our “Best Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #5. The yearly cost to attend Missouri Western State University is $10,958 for plains states region bachelor’s degree wildlife students with aid.

Read more about Wildlife Management at Missouri Western

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwest Missouri State University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid list. Northwest Missouri State University is a medium-sized school located in Maryville, Missouri that handed out 13 bachelors’s wildlife degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Northwest, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $12,354 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Wildlife students with aid per year to attend Northwest Missouri State University.

Full Northwest Wildlife Management Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Missouri State University - Springfield. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid. This large school is located in Springfield, Missouri, and it awarded 32 bachelors’s wildlife degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our plains states region bachelor’s degree wildlife students with aid list, Missouri State has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Missouri State is $16,725 for plains states region bachelor’s degree wildlife students with aid.

Read more about Wildlife Management at Missouri State

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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.

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