2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Great Lakes Region

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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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,182 and $43,142 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Great Lakes Region” 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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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Great Lakes Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’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 Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Great Lakes Region. This large school is located in East Lansing, Michigan, and it awarded 10 masters’s wildlife degrees in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. 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%.

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University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

#6 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Madison landed the #2 spot on the list. UW - Madison is a large school located in Madison, Wisconsin that handed out 7 masters’s wildlife degrees in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about 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.