Wildlife Management at Texas Tech University

If you plan to study wildlife management, take a look at what Texas Tech University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Texas Tech is located in Lubbock, Texas and approximately 40,322 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 10 students received their master's degree in wildlife.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Wildlife Management section at the bottom of this page.

Texas Tech Wildlife Management Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Wildlife
• Doctorate Degree in Wildlife

Texas Tech Wildlife Management Rankings

There were 4 students who received their doctoral degrees in wildlife, making the school the #6 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Wildlife Student Demographics at Texas Tech

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the wildlife majors at Texas Tech University.

Texas Tech Wildlife Management Master’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 10 students earned a master's degree in wildlife from Texas Tech. About 40% of these graduates were women and the other 60% were men.

Of the students who received a wildlife master's degree from Texas Tech, 80% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level. In the wildlife master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 10% of degree recipients. That is 2% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Texas Tech University with a master's in wildlife.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	8
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Natural Resource Management

Careers That Wildlife Grads May Go Into

A degree in wildlife can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for TX, the home state for Texas Tech University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Conservation Scientists	2,010	$57,990
Fish and Game Wardens	460	$66,130
Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists	400	$66,150
Forestry & Conservation Science Professors	100	$87,130

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Johan Hendrikse under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.