by our College Data Analytics Team
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 Forestry Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Forestry is the 189th most popular major in the country with 2,233 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, forestry graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $38,829 and had an average of $21,444 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 187 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,316 and $21,214 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 110 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in forestry. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in forestry.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Southwest Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Stephen F Austin State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Southwest Region. Nacogdoches, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s forestry degrees to 39 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Mexico Highlands University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Southwest Region. New Mexico Highlands University is a small school located in Las Vegas, New Mexico that handed out 8 bachelors’s forestry degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northern Arizona University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Flagstaff, Arizona, this large public school awarded 47 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s forestry students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.6% 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%.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in College Station, Texas, this large public school awarded 16 degrees to qualified bachelors’s forestry students 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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