Wildlife Management at University of New Hampshire - Main Campus

If you are interested in studying wildlife management, you may want to check out the program at University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UNH is located in Durham, New Hampshire and has a total student population of 14,348. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 26 students received a bachelor's degree in wildlife from UNH.

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.

UNH Wildlife Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Wildlife

UNH Wildlife Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the wildlife progam at UNH compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The wildlife major at UNH 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
Most Focused Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	35
Best Wildlife Management Schools	45

Earnings of UNH Wildlife Graduates

The median salary of wildlife students who receive their bachelor's degree at UNH is $24,682. This is less than $26,124, which is the national average of all wildlife majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Wildlife Student Demographics at UNH

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the wildlife majors at University of New Hampshire - Main Campus.

UNH Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Program

Of the 26 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Wildlife Management from UNH in 2020-2021, 31% were men and 69% were women.

About 96% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in wildlife at UNH 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 University of New Hampshire - Main Campus with a bachelor's in wildlife.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	25
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

UNH 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 (Other)
• Forestry
• Natural Resource Management
• 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 NH, the home state for University of New Hampshire - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in NH	Average Salary in NH
Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists	70	$67,950
Conservation Scientists	60	$72,160

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 Kylejtod under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.