2024 Best Wildlife Management Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
340Wildlife Degrees Awarded
$33,486Avg Early-Career Salary
Wildlife Management is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #186 out of the 395 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Wildlife Management Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 340 degrees in wildlife management during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of wildlife management school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for wildlife management schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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Best Schools for Wildlife Management in the Southwest Region
The schools below may not offer all types of wildlife degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Texas Tech University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in wildlife management. Located in the large city of Lubbock, Texas Tech is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #168 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Texas Tech is a great university overall.
There were approximately 14 wildlife management students who graduated with this degree at Texas Tech in the most recent year we have data available.
Stephen F Austin State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in wildlife management. Located in the remote town of Nacogdoches, SFASU is a public university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #933 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means SFASU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 17 wildlife management students who graduated with this degree at SFASU in the most recent year we have data available. Those wildlife management students who get their degree from Stephen F Austin State University receive $6,117 more than the average wildlife grad.
Tarleton State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in wildlife management. Located in the town of Stephenville, Tarleton is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 59th out of 115 colleges for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were about 89 wildlife management students who graduated with this degree at Tarleton in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in wildlife management needs to look into New Mexico State University - Main Campus. Located in the midsize suburb of Las Cruces, NMSU Main Campus is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 5th out of 23 schools for overall quality in the state of New Mexico.
There were about 35 wildlife management students who graduated with this degree at NMSU Main Campus in the most recent data year. Soon after graduating, wildlife degree recipients usually make about $27,369 in the first five years of their career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
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Your choice of wildlife management school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for wildlife management schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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