Wildlife Management at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

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

UT Knoxville is located in Knoxville, Tennessee and has a total student population of 30,559.

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.

UT Knoxville Wildlife Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Wildlife

UT Knoxville Wildlife Management Rankings

The wildlife major at UT Knoxville 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 UT Knoxville

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the wildlife majors at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville.

UT Knoxville Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 47% of wildlife bachelor's degrees went to men and 53% went to women. The typical wildlife bachelor's degree program is made up of only 45% men. So male students are more repesented at UT Knoxville since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

About 78% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in wildlife at UT Knoxville are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% 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 The University of Tennessee - Knoxville with a bachelor's in wildlife.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	28
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Concentrations Within Wildlife Management

Wildlife Management majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Wildlife, Fish & Wildl&s Science & Management	59

Related Majors

• Natural Resources Conservation
• Natural Resource Management
• 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 TN, the home state for The University of Tennessee - Knoxville.

Occupation	Jobs in TN	Average Salary in TN
Conservation Scientists	140	$68,440
Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists	90	$65,550

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 Nightryder84 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.