Wildlife Management at Northwest Missouri State University

If you plan to study wildlife management, take a look at what Northwest Missouri State University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Northwest is located in Maryville, Missouri and approximately 7,267 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 15 students received a bachelor's degree in wildlife from Northwest.

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.

Northwest Wildlife Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Wildlife

Northwest Wildlife Management Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks wildlife programs across the country. The following shows how Northwest performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The wildlife major at Northwest 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Value Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	12
Most Focused Wildlife Management Schools	48

Earnings of Northwest Wildlife Graduates

The median salary of wildlife students who receive their bachelor's degree at Northwest is $24,340. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $26,124 for all wildlife students.

Wildlife Student Demographics at Northwest

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the wildlife majors at Northwest Missouri State University.

Northwest Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Program

Of the 15 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Wildlife Management from Northwest in 2020-2021, 67% were men and 33% were women.

About 93% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in wildlife at Northwest are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	14
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Northwest also has a doctoral program available in wildlife. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

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 MO, the home state for Northwest Missouri State University.

Occupation	Jobs in MO	Average Salary in MO
Conservation Scientists	560	$57,580
Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists	380	$52,990
Forestry & Conservation Science Professors	50	$76,630

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 poster under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.