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2023 Best Value Wildlife Management Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$17,987 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Wildlife Management Master's Degree School for You

Wildlife Management is the #204 most popular major in the country with 323 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Wildlife Management Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Southwest Region to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for wildlife students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Wildlife Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Wildlife Management Master's Degree Colleges.

Best Southwest Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Wildlife Management

#1

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX

Our analysis found Texas Tech University to be the best value school for wildlife management students who want to pursue a master’s degree in the Southwest Region . Texas Tech is a very large public school located in the large city of Lubbock.

Texas Tech graduate students pay an average of $17,698 in tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Texas Tech also did well on our Best Wildlife Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Full Wildlife Management at Texas Tech University Report

The excellent master’s degree programs at New Mexico State University - Main Campus helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value wildlife management schools in the Southwest Region . Located in the medium-sized suburb of Las Cruces, NMSU Main Campus is a public school with a large student population.

NMSU Main Campus graduate students pay an average of $18,275 in tuition and fees each year.

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Best Wildlife Management Colleges by State

Explore the best wildlife management colleges for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 38
Arizona 0
New Mexico 7

Wildlife Management is one of 5 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Natural Resources Conservation 3,724
Natural Resource Management 1,073
Forestry 486
Fisheries Sciences 106
Natural Resources Conservation (Other) 32

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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