2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
158
Degrees Awarded
$33,486
Avg Salary
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Wildlife Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 2,446 people earned their degree in wildlife management, making the major the 186th most popular in the United States. In , wildlife management graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $26,447 and had an average of $21,250 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 290 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,486 and $20,969 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 158 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 8 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in wildlife management. That schools that top this list have a program in wildlife 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 Wildlife Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree wildlife students.
Top 8 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in the Southwest Region
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Tarleton State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Stephenville, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s wildlife degrees to 65 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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 Tarleton State University Wildlife Management Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - Kingsville. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Southwest Region. Kingsville, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s wildlife degrees to 29 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Wildlife Management at Texas A&M University - Kingsville
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, this fairly large public school awarded 17 degrees to qualified bachelors’s wildlife students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Wildlife Management at NMSU Main Campus
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Western New Mexico University landed the #4 spot on the list. Silver City, New Mexico is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s wildlife degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Western New Mexico University Wildlife Management Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stephen F Austin State University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Southwest Region list. Nacogdoches, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s wildlife degrees to 21 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Wildlife Management at SFASU
Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Southwest Region ranking. ENMU - Main Campus is located in Portales, New Mexico and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s wildlife degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Wildlife Management at ENMU - Main Campus
Texas A&M University - Commerce ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Southwest Region list. Commerce, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s wildlife degrees to 24 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.0% 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 Wildlife Management at Texas A&M University - Commerce
Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #8 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Texas A&M College Station is located in College Station, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s wildlife degrees to qualified students.
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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Texas A&M College Station Wildlife Management Report
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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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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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