2025 Best Wildlife Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in Maine

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.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Wildlife Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in Maine ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 61 bachelor's degrees in wildlife management during the 2021-2022 academic year.

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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 complete 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 Maine.

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 Maine

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

Top Maine Schools for a Bachelor's in Wildlife

1

Unity College
New Gloucester, ME

31 Annual Graduates

$29,312 Median Starting Salary

$48,152 Median Student Debt

Unity College is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in wildlife management. Located in the rural area of New Gloucester, Unity is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.

Soon after graduation, wildlife bachelor's recipients usually make about $29,312 at the beginning of their careers.

More information about a bachelor’s in wildlife management from Unity College

2

University of Maine
Orono, ME

30 Annual Graduates

$27,636 Median Starting Salary

University of Maine is a great decision for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in wildlife management. Located in the small suburb of Orono, UMaine is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the wildlife program make an average of $27,636 in the first couple years of working.

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

Best Wildlife Management Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Wildlife Management Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New Hampshire	157	26
Rhode Island	157	34

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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	61

Majors Similar to Wildlife

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Natural Resources Conservation	225
Natural Resource Management	35
Forestry	13

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.