2025 Best Wildlife Management Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
4Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
182Wildlife Degrees Awarded
$30,836Avg Early-Career Salary
Wildlife Management is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #186 out of the 395 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for wildlife management students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 182 degrees in wildlife management to qualified students.
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.
Your choice of wildlife management school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for wildlife management schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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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.
Best Schools for Wildlife Management in the Middle Atlantic Region
The schools below may not offer all types of wildlife degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of Delaware is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in wildlife management. Located in the suburb of Newark, UD is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #96 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UD is a great university overall.
There were approximately 42 wildlife management students who graduated with this degree at UD in the most recent data year. Soon after graduating, wildlife degree recipients typically make an average of $22,411 in the first five years of their career.
It is difficult to beat Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science if you wish to pursue a degree in wildlife management. Located in the rural area of Paul Smiths, Paul Smith's College is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #779 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Paul Smith's College is a great college overall.
There were about 15 wildlife management students who graduated with this degree at Paul Smith's College in the most recent year we have data available. Wildlife Management degree recipients from Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science receive an earnings boost of approximately $5,143 above the average earnings of wildlife management graduates.
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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.
It's hard to beat Delaware Valley University if you wish to pursue a degree in wildlife management. Located in the suburb of Doylestown, DelVal is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 71st out of 103 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were roughly 34 wildlife management students who graduated with this degree at DelVal in the most recent year we have data available. After graduating, wildlife degree recipients usually earn about $28,178 in the first five years of their career.
Finger Lakes Community College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in wildlife management. Finger Lakes Community College is a medium-sized public college located in the rural area of Canandaigua. This college ranks 129th out of 136 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 12 wildlife management students who graduated with this degree at Finger Lakes Community College in the most recent data year.
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).
Your choice of wildlife management school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for wildlife management schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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