2023 Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Texas for a Doctorate

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Texas for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Wildlife Management is the 186th most popular major in the country with 2,449 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Texas, there were 234 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,602 and $28,000 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 wildlife management graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,315 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Texas for a Doctorate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in wildlife management. To top this list, a school must have a successful wildlife management program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Texas for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for texas doctor’s degree wildlife students.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Wildlife Management in Texas

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Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas

#9 overall quality in Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Texas for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Tech University landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas Tech is a large school located in Lubbock, Texas that handed out 4 doctorate’s wildlife degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Wildlife Management at Texas Tech University

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Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Kingsville, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - Kingsville. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Wildlife Major in Texas for a Doctorate list. Kingsville, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s wildlife degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

Full Texas A&M Kingsville Wildlife Management Report

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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 Nicholas A. Tonelli.