2022 Best Value Colleges for Animal Services (Income Over $110k) in the Southwest Region

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 “Best Vallue Animal Services Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,058 people earned their degree in animal services, making the major the 263rd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, animal services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $19,660 and had an average of $17,032 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 65 animal services graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,000 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Vallue Animal Services Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making Over $110k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in animal services. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent animal services programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the animal services program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Vallue Animal Services Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making Over $110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Vallue Animal Services Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making Over $110k.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Animal Services (Income Over $110k) in the Southwest Region

#1

West Texas A&M University

Canyon, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$12,761 Average Net Price

$37,052 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend West Texas A&M University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Vallue Animal Services Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making Over $110k. Canyon, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s animal services degrees to 14 students in 2019-2020.

West Texas A&M University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Animal Services Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $12,761 for southwest region animal services students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend West Texas A&M University.

Full West Texas A&M University Animal Services Report

#2

Texas A&M University - Commerce

Commerce, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$13,017 Average Net Price

$42,939 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Vallue Animal Services Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - Commerce landed the #2 spot on the list. Texas A&M Commerce is a fairly large public school situated in Commerce, Texas. It awarded 8 ’s animal services degrees in 2019-2020.

Texas A&M Commerce did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Animal Services Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Texas A&M Commerce is $13,017 for Southwest Region Animal Services students whose families make more than $110k.

Read full report on Animal Services at Texas A&M Commerce

• Best Value Colleges for Animal Services (Income Over $110k)

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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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