Wildlife Management at University of Rhode Island

What traits are you looking for in a wildlife school? To help you decide if University of Rhode Island is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's wildlife program.

URI is located in Kingston, Rhode Island and has a total student population of 17,649. Of the 3,855 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Rhode Island in 2021, 34 of them were wildlife management majors.

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.

URI Wildlife Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Wildlife

URI Wildlife Management Rankings

The wildlife major at URI 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.

How Much Do Wildlife Graduates from URI Make?

The median salary of wildlife students who receive their bachelor's degree at URI is $24,424. 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 URI

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

URI Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 34 students earned a bachelor's degree in wildlife from URI. About 53% of these graduates were women and the other 47% were men.

About 91% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in wildlife at URI 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 Rhode Island with a bachelor's in wildlife.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	31
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

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

Related Majors

• Fisheries Sciences
• Natural Resources Conservation
• Natural Resource Management

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 RI, the home state for University of Rhode Island.

Occupation	Jobs in RI	Average Salary in RI
Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists	80	$70,600
Fish and Game Wardens	30	$77,710

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 Tnricci under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.