Wildlife Management at Dakota Wesleyan University

What traits are you looking for in a wildlife school? To help you decide if Dakota Wesleyan University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's wildlife program.

Dakota Wesleyan University is located in Mitchell, South Dakota and approximately 933 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Wildlife Management section at the bottom of this page.

Dakota Wesleyan University Wildlife Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Wildlife

Dakota Wesleyan University Wildlife Management Rankings

The wildlife major at Dakota Wesleyan University is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Wildlife Management. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Wildlife Student Demographics at Dakota Wesleyan University

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the wildlife majors at Dakota Wesleyan University.

Dakota Wesleyan University Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 100% of wildlife bachelor's degrees went to men and 0% went to women. The typical wildlife bachelor's degree program is made up of only 45% men. So male students are more repesented at Dakota Wesleyan University since its program graduates 55% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 83% more racial-ethnic minorities in its wildlife bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Dakota Wesleyan University with a bachelor's in wildlife.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Concentrations Within Wildlife Management

If you plan to be a wildlife major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Dakota Wesleyan University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Wildlife, Fish & Wildl&s Science & Management	3

Related Majors

Careers That Wildlife Grads May Go Into

A degree in wildlife can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for SD, the home state for Dakota Wesleyan University.

Occupation	Jobs in SD	Average Salary in SD
Conservation Scientists	320	$62,390
Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists	190	$53,810
Fish and Game Wardens	110	$44,510

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Jake DeGroot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.