2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Management Major in the Plains States Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Management Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Wildlife, Fish & Wildl&s Science & Management is the 270th most popular major in the country with 2,446 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Plains States region, there were 194 wildlife, fish & wildl&s science & management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 152 wildlife, fish & wildl&s science & management graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,724 and $22,887 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Management Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 8 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in wildlife, fish & wildl&s science & management. That schools that top this list have a program in wildlife, fish & wildl&s science & management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Management Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Management Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 8 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife, Fish & Wildl&s Science & Management in the Plains States Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend College of the Ozarks. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Management Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Point Lookout, Missouri, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 6 degrees to qualified bachelors’s wildlife, fish and wildlands science and management students in 2021-2022.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Valley City State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Management Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Valley City, North Dakota, this small public school awarded 11 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s wildlife, fish and wildlands science and management students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Management Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Bemidji State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Bemidji State University is a small school located in Bemidji, Minnesota that handed out 33 bachelors’s wildlife, fish and wildlands science and management degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Dakota State University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Management Major in the Plains States Region. Brookings, South Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s wildlife, fish and wildlands science and management degrees to 34 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dakota Wesleyan University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Management Major in the Plains States Region list. Dakota Wesleyan University is located in Mitchell, South Dakota and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s wildlife, fish and wildlands science and management degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Missouri Western State University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Management Major in the Plains States Region ranking. Missouri Western State University is a small public school situated in Saint Joseph, Missouri. It awarded 15 bachelors’s wildlife, fish and wildlands science and management degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Northwest Missouri State University ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Management Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Maryville, Missouri, this medium-sized public school awarded 11 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s wildlife, fish and wildlands science and management students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Missouri State University - Springfield ranked #8 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Management Major in the Plains States Region list. This large school is located in Springfield, Missouri, and it awarded 25 bachelors’s wildlife, fish and wildlands science and management degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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