by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Alaska” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Wildlife Management is the 186th most popular major in the country with 2,446 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , wildlife management graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $26,447 and had an average of $21,250 in loans still to pay off.
Across Alaska, there were 36 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $21,190 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Alaska” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in wildlife management. That schools that top this list have a program in wildlife management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Alaska” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Alaska”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Fairbanks, Alaska, this medium-sized public school handed out 18 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s wildlife students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Southeast. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Alaska. Located in Juneau, Alaska, this small public school handed out 4 degrees to qualified bachelors’s wildlife students in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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