2025 Best Wildlife Management Master's Degree Schools
You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a Master's Degree in
wildlife management. It is ranked #208 out of 343 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
College Factual looked at 7 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Wildlife Management Master's Degree Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 228 master's degrees in wildlife management to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
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Choosing a Great Wildlife Management School for Your Master's Degree
The wildlife master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on wildlife management students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other wildlife management students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Student Debt - How easy is it for wildlife management to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
- 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 schools for wildlife management students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Wildlife Management Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Wildlife Management Master's Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.