2023 Best Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$33,486
Avg Salary
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Wildlife for a Bachelor’s” ranking.
Wildlife Management is the 186th most popular major in the country with 2,449 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, wildlife management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $26,447 and had an average of $23,043 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 340 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,486 and $22,583 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 200 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Wildlife for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in wildlife management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality wildlife management programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the wildlife management program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Wildlife for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Wildlife for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Wildlife for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 2 Best Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Wildlife for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Stephen F Austin State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Nacogdoches, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s wildlife degrees to 17 students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at SFASU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.Of the 12,620 students enrolled at Stephen F Austin State University, 427 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 177 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $7,500. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Wildlife for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a fairly large public school situated in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It awarded 28 bachelors’s wildlife degrees in 2020-2021.
NMSU Main Campus not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Wildlife Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.According to our most recent data, NMSU Main Campus supports 14,227 students, and 620 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 285 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $3,880. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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