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 2 schools in California 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 175 bachelor's degrees in wildlife management during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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.
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.
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 California list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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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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 difficult to beat University of California - Davis if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in wildlife management. UC Davis is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Davis.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the wildlife program state that they receive average early career earnings of $29,896.
Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in wildlife management needs to take a look at Humboldt State University. Located in the remote town of Arcata, Humboldt State University is a public university with a medium-sized student population.
After graduation, wildlife bachelor's recipients typically make an average of $26,325 in their early careers.
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).
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