2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Turf & Turfgrass Management in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Turf and Turfgrass Management Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Turf & Turfgrass Management is the 762nd most popular major in the country with 340 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

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.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Turf and Turfgrass Management Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in turf and turfgrass management. To top this list, a school must have a successful turf and turfgrass management program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Turf and Turfgrass Management Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular 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

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - College Station. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Turf and Turfgrass Management Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s list. College Station, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s turf and turfgrass management degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Texas A&M University - College Station Turf & Turfgrass Management Report

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

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Turf and Turfgrass Management Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s. This fairly large school is located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s turf and turfgrass management degrees in 2020-2021.

Full New Mexico State University - Main Campus Turf & Turfgrass Management Report

• Most Popular 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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