Wildlife Management is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #139 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Wildlife Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 159 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. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
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 take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different 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 bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor'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 - 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 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.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Wildlife Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest 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.
Develop a broad-based interdisciplinary skill set to solve complex environmental problems like climate change, alternative energy and sustainability with a specialized online degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a good choice for students interested in a bachelor's degree in wildlife management. Located in the suburb of Las Cruces, NMSU Main Campus is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the wildlife program earn about $33,603 in their early career salary.
Texas A&M University - Commerce is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in wildlife management. Texas A&M Commerce is a fairly large public university located in the town of Commerce.
Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the wildlife program make an average of $20,295 in their early career salary.
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. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
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