2023 Most Focused Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resources Law Enforcement and Protective Services in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 249 people earned their degree in environmental/natural resources law enforcement and protective services, making the major the 899th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 27 environmental/natural resources law enforcement and protective services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Natural Resources Law Enforcement and Protective Services Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in environmental/natural resources law enforcement and protective services. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in environmental/natural resources law enforcement and protective services.

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Schools Highly Focused on Natural Resources Law Enforcement and Protective Services Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Natural Resources Law Enforcement and Protective Services Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resources Law Enforcement and Protective Services in the Southwest Region

1

Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Weatherford, Oklahoma

$45,852 Average Early-Career Earnings

$20,752 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southwestern Oklahoma State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Natural Resources Law Enforcement and Protective Services Major in the Southwest Region. Weatherford, Oklahoma is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s natural resources law enforcement and protective services degrees to 21 students in 2020-2021.

Full SWOSU Environmental/Natural Resources Law Enforcement and Protective Services Report

2

Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas

#23 overall quality in Southwest

$45,903 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,442 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Natural Resources Law Enforcement and Protective Services Major in the Southwest Region list. Texas Tech is a large school located in Lubbock, Texas that handed out 6 ’s natural resources law enforcement and protective services degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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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 Brian M. Powell.