2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Turf and Turfgrass Management Major in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Turf and Turfgrass Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 340 people earned their degree in turf and turfgrass management, making the major the 762nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 11 turf and turfgrass management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 turf and turfgrass management graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Turf and Turfgrass Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in turf and turfgrass management. That schools that top this list have a program in turf and turfgrass 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 Turf and Turfgrass Management Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree turf and turfgrass management students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Turf & Turfgrass Management in the Southwest Region

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Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, Texas

#7 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Turf and Turfgrass Management Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in College Station, Texas, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s turf and turfgrass management degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.

Read full report on Turf & Turfgrass Management at Texas A&M University - College Station

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New Mexico State University - Main Campus
Las Cruces, New Mexico

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Turf and Turfgrass Management Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, this fairly large public school awarded 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s turf and turfgrass management students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Turf & Turfgrass Management at New Mexico State University - Main Campus

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Turf & Turfgrass Management

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.

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