2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Montana

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Montana” 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 Montana, there were 107 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,601 and $21,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,873 and $42,874 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Montana” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Montana

The colleges and universities below are the best for montana master’s degree wildlife students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in Montana

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Montana State University
Bozeman, Montana

#1 overall quality in Montana

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Montana that were part of this year’s ranking, Montana State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Bozeman, Montana, this fairly large public school handed out 11 degrees to qualified masters’s wildlife students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at Montana State University

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The University of Montana
Missoula, Montana

#2 overall quality in Montana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Montana. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in Montana list. Missoula, Montana is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s wildlife degrees to 8 students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.0% 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%.

Full The University of Montana Wildlife Management Report

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.