Wildlife Biology at University of Vermont

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

UVM is located in Burlington, Vermont and approximately 13,292 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Wildlife Biology section at the bottom of this page.

UVM Wildlife Biology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Wildlife Biology

UVM Wildlife Biology Rankings

The wildlife biology major at UVM is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Wildlife Biology. 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 Biology Student Demographics at UVM

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

UVM Wildlife Biology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 48% of wildlife biology bachelor's degrees went to men and 52% went to women. The typical wildlife biology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 38% men. So male students are more repesented at UVM since its program graduates 10% more men than average.

About 90% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in wildlife biology at UVM 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 Vermont with a bachelor's in wildlife biology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	38
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Zoology/Animal Biology

Careers That Wildlife Biology Grads May Go Into

A degree in wildlife biology can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for VT, the home state for University of Vermont.

Occupation	Jobs in VT	Average Salary in VT
Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists	90	$67,560

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 AlexiusHoratius under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.