2022 Best Value Wildlife Schools in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid

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 Kentucky For Those Getting Aid” 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 Kentucky, there were 37 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,000 and $23,811 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Wildlife Schools in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

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. 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 in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Wildlife Schools in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Wildlife Schools in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Wildlife Management in Kentucky (With Aid)

#1

Murray State University

Murray, Kentucky

#1 in overall quality

$11,390 Average Net Price

$43,530 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Murray State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Wildlife Schools in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid. This medium-sized school is located in Murray, Kentucky, and it awarded 21 ’s wildlife degrees in 2019-2020.

Murray State also took the #1 spot in our “Best Wildlife Management Schools in Kentucky” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Murray State is $11,390 for Kentucky Wildlife students with aid.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at Murray State University

#2

Eastern Kentucky University

Richmond, Kentucky

#2 in overall quality

$14,149 Average Net Price

$38,311 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Wildlife Schools in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Kentucky University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Richmond, Kentucky, this fairly large public school awarded 16 degrees to qualified ’s wildlife students in 2019-2020.

Eastern did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Wildlife Management Schools in Kentucky” list. The estimated yearly cost for Eastern Kentucky University is $14,149 for Kentucky Wildlife students with aid.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at Eastern

• Best Value Colleges for Wildlife Management in the Southeast Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Colleges for Wildlife Management (With Aid)

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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