Wildlife Management at Stephen F Austin State University

If you are interested in studying wildlife management, you may want to check out the program at Stephen F Austin State University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

SFASU is located in Nacogdoches, Texas and has a total student population of 12,620. In 2021, 17 wildlife majors received their bachelor's degree from SFASU.

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.

SFASU Wildlife Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Wildlife

SFASU Wildlife Management Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks wildlife programs across the country. The following shows how SFASU 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 SFASU 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 Wildlife Management Schools	2

How Much Do Wildlife Graduates from SFASU Make?

The median salary of wildlife students who receive their bachelor's degree at SFASU is $39,602. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 52% higher than the national average of $26,124 for all wildlife bachelor's degree recipients.

Wildlife Student Demographics at SFASU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the wildlife majors at Stephen F Austin State University.

SFASU Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Program

Of the 17 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Wildlife Management from SFASU in 2020-2021, 76% were men and 24% were women.

About 82% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in wildlife at SFASU are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 2% 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 Stephen F Austin State University with a bachelor's in wildlife.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	14
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• Natural Resources Conservation
• Forestry

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 TX, the home state for Stephen F Austin State University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Conservation Scientists	2,010	$57,990
Fish and Game Wardens	460	$66,130
Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists	400	$66,150
Forestry & Conservation Science Professors	100	$87,130

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 Billy Hathorn under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.