2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Turf and Turfgrass Management Major in the Southwest Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Turf and Turfgrass Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 338 people earned their degree in turf & turfgrass management, making the major the 762nd most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 12 turf & turfgrass management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 turf & turfgrass management graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Turf and Turfgrass Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in turf & turfgrass management. That schools that top this list have a program in turf & turfgrass management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Turf and Turfgrass Management Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree turf and turfgrass management students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Turf & Turfgrass Management in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Turf and Turfgrass Management Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in College Station, Texas, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s turf and turfgrass management degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full Texas A&M University - College Station Turf & Turfgrass Management Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Turf and Turfgrass Management Major in the Southwest Region list. NMSU Main Campus is a fairly large school located in Las Cruces, New Mexico that handed out 2 bachelors’s turf and turfgrass management degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Turf & Turfgrass Management at New Mexico State University - Main Campus
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Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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