2025 Best Wildlife Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

a bachelor's degree in wildlife management is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #139 out of 363 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for wildlife management students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 156 bachelor's degrees in wildlife management during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Wildlife Management School for Your Bachelor's Degree

Your choice of wildlife management for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality wildlife program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to wildlife management students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other wildlife management students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt wildlife management students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized wildlife management related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for wildlife management students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The wildlife school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Wildlife Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Wildlife Management in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for wildlife management students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Wildlife

1

University of Delaware
Newark, DE

35 Annual Graduates

$22,411 Median Starting Salary

It is difficult to beat University of Delaware if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in wildlife management. UD is a very large public university located in the suburb of Newark.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the wildlife program report average early career earnings of $22,411.

More information about a bachelor’s in wildlife management from University of Delaware

2

Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science
Paul Smiths, NY

19 Annual Graduates

$35,979 Median Starting Salary

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in wildlife management needs to look into Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science. Paul Smith's College is a fairly small private not-for-profit college located in the rural area of Paul Smiths.

Bachelor's recipients from the wildlife management major at Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science earn $7,123 above the standard college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

More information about a bachelor’s in wildlife management from Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science

3

Delaware Valley University
Doylestown, PA

48 Annual Graduates

$28,178 Median Starting Salary

It's difficult to beat Delaware Valley University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in wildlife management. DelVal is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Doylestown.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the wildlife program make around $28,178 for their early career.

More information about a bachelor’s in wildlife management from Delaware Valley University

Best Wildlife Management Colleges by State

Explore the best wildlife management colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	275	43
Pennsylvania	274	68
Maryland	207	5
Delaware	130	35

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Rankings in Majors Related to Wildlife

One of 5 majors within the Natural Resources & Conservation area of study, Wildlife Management has other similar majors worth exploring.

Wildlife Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Wildlife, Fish & Wildl&s Science & Management	156

Majors Similar to Wildlife

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Natural Resources Conservation	2,419
Natural Resource Management	173
Forestry	56
Natural Resources Conservation (Other)	44
Fisheries Sciences	24

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nicholas A. Tonelli. More about our data sources and methodologies.