2023 Best Value Wildlife Management Schools in West Virginia
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best Wildlife Management School for You
In 2020-2021, 90 degrees and certificates were awarded to wildlife management students who went to a West Virginia college or university. This makes it the #66 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 assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Wildlife Management Schools in West Virginia ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in West Virginia to see which 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.
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.
Best West Virginia Schools for Affordable Quality 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 degree in West Virginia. American Military University is a fairly large private for-profit school located in the town of Charles Town.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at American Military University are $7,360 a year.
American Military University also took the #1 spot in our Best Wildlife Management Schools in West Virginia rankings.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend West Virginia University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Wildlife Management Schools in West Virginia list. WVU is a very large public school located in the small city of Morgantown.
WVU undergraduate students pay an average of $9,144 in in-state tuition and fees each year. Wildlife majors at WVU take out an average of $25,873 in student loans while working on their egree. The average monthly payment of a loan this size is about $268, assuming that the borrower is on a 10-year repayment plan.
WVU also made our Best Wildlife Management Schools in West Virginia list, coming in at #5.
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State | Degrees Awarded |
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Georgia | 52 |
Virginia | 54 |
North Carolina | 23 |
Florida | 94 |
Tennessee | 109 |
Kentucky | 37 |
South Carolina | 47 |
Louisiana | 7 |
Arkansas | 34 |
Alabama | 40 |
Mississippi | 81 |
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Majors Related to Wildlife
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 |
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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.