The 50 colleges that score highest for Wildlife biology on public federal data: selectivity, graduate earnings, program size, academic strength and graduate depth. It is a starting point for your research, not a judgment of quality.
50 colleges · each name links to its page, with sources · data snapshot October 2, 2026 · Updated October 2, 2026
How we rank programs · showing the top 50 of 50 core colleges ranked, those with enough graduates and earnings data · All top-programs lists
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| Rank | College | State | What we measured | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cornell University | NY | Median earnings $78,043 (field-wide) · 10 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 2 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | WI | Median earnings $50,080 · 50 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 3 | University of Florida | FL | Median earnings $41,961 · 47 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 4 | University of California-Davis | CA | Median earnings $68,524 (field-wide) · 76 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 5 | Ohio State University-Main Campus | OH | Median earnings $45,501 · 89 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 6 | Bucknell University | PA | Median earnings $85,687 (field-wide) · 14 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 7 | Franklin and Marshall College | PA | Median earnings $76,124 (college-wide) · 11 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 8 | Purdue University-Main Campus | IN | Median earnings $59,706 (field-wide) · 13 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 9 | University of California-Santa Barbara | CA | Median earnings $53,727 · 28 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 10 | Texas A&M University-College Station | TX | Median earnings $41,543 · 64 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 11 | University of Georgia | GA | Median earnings $59,621 (field-wide) · 51 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 12 | North Carolina State University at Raleigh | NC | Median earnings $38,440 · 58 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 13 | Michigan State University | MI | Median earnings $41,768 · 107 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 14 | Ohio Wesleyan University | OH | Median earnings $55,624 (college-wide) · 38 graduates last year · 9% of the school's degrees | |
| 15 | University of Connecticut | CT | Median earnings $69,471 · 111 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 16 | University of California-Riverside | CA | Median earnings $58,820 (field-wide) · 11 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 17 | Indiana University-Bloomington | IN | Median earnings $48,161 · 28 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 18 | University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus | OK | Median earnings $55,682 · 214 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 19 | Ohio University-Main Campus | OH | Median earnings $55,352 · 162 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 20 | Oregon State University | OR | Median earnings $44,201 · 100 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 21 | Brigham Young University | UT | Median earnings $57,020 · 22 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 22 | Oklahoma State University-Main Campus | OK | Median earnings $42,474 · 88 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 23 | Eckerd College | FL | Median earnings $48,313 (field-wide) · 89 graduates last year · 16% of the school's degrees | |
| 24 | University of Vermont | VT | Median earnings $38,421 · 47 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 25 | Berry College | GA | Median earnings $48,958 · 31 graduates last year · 6% of the school's degrees | |
| 26 | Mars Hill University | NC | Median earnings $44,781 (college-wide) · 13 graduates last year · 6% of the school's degrees | |
| 27 | Colorado State University-Fort Collins | CO | Median earnings $44,226 · 239 graduates last year · 5% of the school's degrees | |
| 28 | Canisius University | NY | Median earnings $40,174 · 37 graduates last year · 9% of the school's degrees | |
| 29 | SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry | NY | Median earnings $42,505 · 46 graduates last year · 11% of the school's degrees | |
| 30 | Olivet Nazarene University | IL | Median earnings $58,864 (field-wide) · 15 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 31 | Miami University-Oxford | OH | Median earnings $42,883 · 58 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 32 | Carroll University | WI | Median earnings $39,677 · 29 graduates last year · 5% of the school's degrees | |
| 33 | University of North Dakota | ND | Median earnings $50,191 (field-wide) · 11 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 34 | Washington State University | WA | Median earnings $41,888 · 39 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 35 | Kansas State University | KS | Median earnings $48,908 · 26 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 36 | Lees-McRae College | NC | Median earnings $38,699 · 43 graduates last year · 21% of the school's degrees | |
| 37 | Friends University | KS | Median earnings $39,329 · 19 graduates last year · 8% of the school's degrees | |
| 38 | Southern Illinois University-Carbondale | IL | Median earnings $43,207 · 44 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 39 | State University of New York at Oswego | NY | Median earnings $40,755 · 56 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 40 | University of New Hampshire-Main Campus | NH | Median earnings $41,343 · 31 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 41 | University of Wyoming | WY | Median earnings $44,424 · 56 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 42 | Weber State University | UT | Median earnings $49,480 · 61 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 43 | Kent State University at Kent | OH | Median earnings $35,875 · 49 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 44 | Texas State University | TX | Median earnings $43,943 · 50 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 45 | Malone University | OH | Median earnings $41,515 (field-wide) · 13 graduates last year · 6% of the school's degrees | |
| 46 | University of Maine | ME | Median earnings $36,078 · 26 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 47 | Grand Valley State University | MI | Median earnings $54,160 (field-wide) · 27 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 48 | Delaware Valley University | PA | Median earnings $40,575 · 12 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 49 | Unity Environmental University | ME | Median earnings $39,302 · 13 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 50 | University of New England | ME | Median earnings $42,941 · 22 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees |
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