2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 2,449 people earned their degree in wildlife management, making the major the 186th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, wildlife management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $26,447 and had an average of $23,043 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 340 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,486 and $22,583 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 10 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in wildlife management. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in wildlife management.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank Wildlife Management Schools

The wildlife school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Southwest Region”.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in the Southwest Region

1

Southwest Texas Junior College
Uvalde, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southwest Texas Junior College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Southwest Region. This medium-sized school is located in Uvalde, Texas, and it awarded 8 associates’s wildlife degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Southwest Texas Junior College Wildlife Management Report

2

South Plains College
Levelland, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Wildlife Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, South Plains College landed the #2 spot on the list. South Plains College is a medium-sized school located in Levelland, Texas that handed out 2 associates’s wildlife degrees in 2020-2021.

Full South Plains College Wildlife Management Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Wildlife 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nicholas A. Tonelli.