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2023 Best Value Wildlife Management Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$11,255 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$23,631 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Wildlife Management School for You

Wildlife Management is the #191 most popular major in California with 184 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Wildlife Management Schools in California ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in California to see which ones offered the best value programs for wildlife students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Wildlife Management Schools in California

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Wildlife Management Colleges.

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality in Wildlife Management

$7,864 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Humboldt State University the best value school in California for wildlife management students. Located in the town of Arcata, Humboldt State University is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

Humboldt State University undergraduate students pay an average of $7,864 in in-state tuition and fees each year. While working on their degree, wildlife majors at Humboldt State University accumulate an average of around $21,929 in student debt.

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$14,645 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at University of California - Davis helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best wildlife management schools in California. UC Davis is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Davis.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UC Davis are $14,645 a year. The average amount in student loans that wildlife majors at UC Davis take out is $16,859. This translates to an average monthly loan payment of $297, based on a 10-year repayment plan.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, UC Davis also did well on our Best Wildlife Management Schools in California list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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Best Value Wildlife Management Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Wildlife Management Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Washington 9
Oregon 65
Nevada 42
Alaska 34

Wildlife Management is one of 5 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Wildlife

Related Major Annual Graduates
Natural Resources Conservation 22,254
Natural Resource Management 2,933
Forestry 2,233
Fisheries Sciences 483
Natural Resources Conservation (Other) 151

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Nicholas A. Tonelli.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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