2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Idaho

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Idaho” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Idaho, there were 41 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,988 and $25,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 41 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,282 and $21,331 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Idaho” 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Idaho

The colleges and universities below are the best for idaho bachelor’s degree wildlife students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in Idaho

1

University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho

#3 overall quality in Idaho

$25,155 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,000 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Idaho that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Idaho landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Moscow, Idaho, and it awarded 24 bachelors’s wildlife degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at University of Idaho

2

Brigham Young University - Idaho
Rexburg, Idaho

#2 overall quality in Idaho

$24,821 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brigham Young University - Idaho. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Idaho list. This large school is located in Rexburg, Idaho, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s wildlife degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Wildlife Management at BYU - I

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.