2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal Services Major in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal Services Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Animal Services is the 271st most popular major in the country with 990 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, animal services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $22,249 and had an average of $17,877 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 66 animal services graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,442 and $21,559 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 21 animal services graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal Services Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in animal services. That schools that top this list have a program in animal services in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal Services Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal Services Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animal Services in the Southwest Region

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West Texas A&M University
Canyon, Texas

$22,442 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,559 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend West Texas A&M University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal Services Major in the Southwest Region list. West Texas A&M University is a public institution located in Canyon, Texas. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full West Texas A&M University Animal Services Report

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Texas A&M University - Commerce
Commerce, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - Commerce. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal Services 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 animal services degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

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

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animal Services

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

• *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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Corey Hensley.