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2023 Best Value Wildlife Management Graduate Certificate Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$20,189 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Wildlife Management Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 2,449 people earned a degree or certificate in wildlife management, making the major the #186 most popular in the United States.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Wildlife Management Graduate Certificate Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the United States to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for wildlife students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Wildlife Management Graduate Certificate Schools in the United States

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for wildlife majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Wildlife Management

Our analysis found American Public University System to be the best value school for wildlife management students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the United States. Located in the town of Charles Town, American Military University is a private for-profit school with a very large student population.

American Military University graduate students pay an average of $7,050 in tuition and fees each year.

American Military University excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Wildlife Management Graduate Certificate Schools list.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at American Public University System

#2

Oregon State University

Corvallis, OR

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oregon State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Wildlife Management Graduate Certificate Schools list. Oregon State is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Corvallis.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Oregon State are $29,420 a year.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at Oregon State University

The excellent graduate certificate programs at The University of Montana helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value wildlife management schools in the United States. Located in the city of Missoula, UM is a public college with a large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UM are $24,096 per year.

Full Wildlife Management at The University of Montana Report

Wildlife Management by Region

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Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

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

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 3 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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