2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Plains States Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Plains States region, there were 194 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,674 and $21,000 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,238 and $112,293 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in wildlife management. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in wildlife management.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Plains States Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in the Plains States Region

1

South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota

Top 15% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Plains States Region list. South Dakota State University is a public institution located in Brookings, South Dakota. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at South Dakota State

2

Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa

#6 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Iowa State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Plains States Region. This large school is located in Ames, Iowa, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s wildlife degrees in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Wildlife Management at Iowa State

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.