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2022 Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

1 Ranked Colleges
4 Degrees Awarded
$17,600 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Wildlife Management is the 181st most popular major in the country with 2,331 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, wildlife management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $24,370 and had an average of $20,895 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 306 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,700 and $21,632 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,970 and $95,025 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent wildlife management programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the wildlife management program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 “Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Wildlife Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Lubbock, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s wildlife degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Texas Tech also took the #1 spot in our “Best Wildlife Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Texas Tech University are $17,530, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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