Wildlife Management at University of Nevada - Reno

Every wildlife management school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the wildlife program at University of Nevada - Reno stacks up to those at other schools.

UNR is located in Reno, Nevada and approximately 20,722 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.

UNR Wildlife Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Wildlife

UNR Wildlife Management Rankings

The wildlife major at UNR 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 UNR

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

UNR Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 57% of wildlife bachelor's degrees went to men and 43% went to women. The typical wildlife bachelor's degree program is made up of only 45% men. So male students are more repesented at UNR since its program graduates 12% more men than average.

About 73% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in wildlife at UNR are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 10% 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 University of Nevada - Reno with a bachelor's in wildlife.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	32
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Concentrations Within Wildlife Management

Wildlife Management majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of Nevada - Reno. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Wildlife, Fish & Wildl&s Science & Management	42

Related Majors

• Forestry
• Natural Resources Conservation

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 NV, the home state for University of Nevada - Reno.

Occupation	Jobs in NV	Average Salary in NV
Conservation Scientists	210	$61,670
Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists	180	$69,270

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 delamare under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.