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2023 Best Value Wildlife Management Schools in Tennessee

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$11,523 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$29,466 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Wildlife Management School for You

In 2020-2021, 109 degrees and certificates were awarded to wildlife management students who went to a Tennessee college or university. This makes it the #99 most popular major in the state.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right 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.

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 Tennessee ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Tennessee 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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Wildlife Management Schools in Tennessee

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

Best Tennessee Schools for Affordable Quality in Wildlife Management

$9,802 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Tennessee Technological University to be the best value school for wildlife management students who want to pursue a degree in Tennessee. Located in the remote town of Cookeville, Tennessee Tech University is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Tennessee Tech University are $9,802 a year. On average, wildlife graduates from Tennessee Tech University take out $17,500 in student loans while working on their degree.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Tennessee Tech University also did well on our Best Wildlife Management Schools in Tennessee list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Full Wildlife Management at Tennessee Technological University Report

$13,244 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best wildlife management schools in Tennessee. Located in the medium-sized city of Knoxville, UT Knoxville is a public college with a fairly large student population.

UT Knoxville undergraduate students pay an average of $13,244 in in-state tuition and fees each year. While working on their degree, wildlife majors at UT Knoxville accumulate an average of around $24,850 in student debt.

UT Knoxville also took the #4 spot in our Best Wildlife Management Schools in Tennessee rankings.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Best Value Wildlife Management Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Wildlife Management Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 52
Virginia 54
North Carolina 23
Florida 94
Kentucky 37
South Carolina 47
Louisiana 7
Arkansas 34
Alabama 40
Mississippi 81
West Virginia 90

One of 5 majors within the area of study, wildlife management has other similar majors worth exploring.

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.

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