If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in wildlife management, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #139 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the New England 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 139 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
The wildlife bachelor'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. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a bachelor'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 ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
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 - The number of wildlife management students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
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 bachelor'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 bachelor's degree.
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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region list to help you make the college decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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Featured Wildlife Management Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
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It's difficult to beat University of New Hampshire - Main Campus if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in wildlife management. Located in the town of Durham, UNH is a public university with a fairly large student population.
After graduation, wildlife bachelor's recipients typically earn an average of $27,698 in the first five years of their career.
Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in wildlife management needs to take a look at University of Rhode Island. URI is a large public university located in the suburb of Kingston.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the wildlife program earn about $25,523 in the first couple years of working.
Unity College is a good choice for students interested in a bachelor's degree in wildlife management. Unity is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit college located in the rural area of New Gloucester.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the wildlife program report average early career wages of $29,312.
Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in wildlife management has to take a look at University of Maine. UMaine is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Orono.
Soon after graduating, wildlife bachelor's recipients usually earn an average of $27,636 in the first five years of their career.
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).
The wildlife bachelor'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. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
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