2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in the Great Lakes Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2021-2022, 2,446 people earned their degree in wildlife management, making the major the 186th most popular in the United States. 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 the Great Lakes region, there were 269 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,120 and $22,296 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,470 and $126,402 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in wildlife management. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in wildlife management.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in the Great Lakes Region

1

Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

#14 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Michigan State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in East Lansing, Michigan, this large public school handed out 10 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s wildlife students in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at Michigan State

2

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

#6 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Great Lakes Region. Madison, Wisconsin is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s wildlife degrees to 3 students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.2% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at University of Wisconsin - Madison

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.