2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in Texas

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in Texas” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Texas, there were 59 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,014 and $23,950 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 55 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,932 and $25,894 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in Texas” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in forestry. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their forestry program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in Texas

The colleges and universities below are the best for texas bachelor’s degree forestry students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Forestry in Texas

1

Stephen F Austin State University
Nacogdoches, Texas

$37,014 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,950 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stephen F Austin State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in Texas list. Stephen F Austin State University is a fairly large public school situated in Nacogdoches, Texas. It awarded 39 bachelors’s forestry degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Forestry at Stephen F Austin State University

2

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

#3 overall quality in Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in Texas. Texas A&M University - College Station is a large public school situated in College Station, Texas. It awarded 16 bachelors’s forestry degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Texas A&M College Station Forestry Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Forestry in the Southwest Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Forestry

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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