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Animal Care Schools
within 100 miles of Fort Worth, TX
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Animal Care Schools near Fort Worth
Fort Worth, TX (population: 751,149) has seven animal care schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Texas Woman's University, the highest ranked school in this group with an animal care program, has a total student population of 13,338. It is the 412th highest ranked school in the USA and the 13th highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University).
Animal Care students from Fort Worth schools who go on to become animal care supervisors, veterinarians, animal trainers, animal behavioralists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 15,320 people working as animal control workers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $33,560. Also, Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers make on average $23,400 per year and there are about 71,350 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Fort Worth-Arlington Metropolitan area alone, there are ** employed veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers earning an average salary of $22,260. Animal control workers in this area earn $33,120/yr and there are 100 employed.
Fort Worth lies in Tarrant county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the Fort Worth-Arlington Metropolitan area has 856,430 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.1% unemployment rate, $19.78/hr average worker wage, and a $41,140 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.119 out of every 1000 jobs in Fort Worth are held by animal control workers, and **/1000 are held by veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers.
Of the 7 animal care schools with a 100-mile radius of Fort Worth, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Tarleton State University comes out as the most expensive ($13,351/yr) for animal care students, with Cedar Valley College as the lowest, reported at only $5,816/yr.
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Cities Near Fort Worth
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Fort Worth |
| Forth Worth | TX | - | 3 | 11.7915 | 4 | 2.0 miles |
| North Richland Hills | TX | 67,133 | 1 | 26.4697 | 12 | 10.3 miles |
| Arlington | TX | 385,024 | 17 | 27.7925 | 325 | 12.9 miles |
| Keller | TX | 41,437 | 0 | - | 0 | 14.0 miles |
| Mansfield | TX | 51,237 | 5 | 21.6558 | 95 | 17.9 miles |
| Grand Prairie | TX | 167,767 | 3 | 23.6315 | 22 | 19.1 miles |
| Grapevine | TX | 51,993 | 0 | - | 0 | 20.0 miles |
| Irving | TX | 206,798 | 5 | 26.9216 | 138 | 22.8 miles |
| Flower Mound | TX | 72,721 | 0 | - | 0 | 24.2 miles |
| Lewisville | TX | 108,843 | 0 | - | 0 | 29.0 miles |
| Carrollton | TX | 130,013 | 4 | 29.2073 | 85 | 30.5 miles |
| Dallas | TX | 1,304,930 | 38 | 20.246 | 638 | 33.3 miles |
| Denton | TX | 127,364 | 2 | 47.1819 | 284 | 34.1 miles |
| Plano | TX | 282,016 | 1 | 11.5039 | 67 | 40.1 miles |
| University | MS | - | 1 | 33.9448 | 106 | 40.5 miles |
| Frisco | TX | 114,533 | 0 | - | 0 | 40.9 miles |
| Garland | TX | 220,597 | 5 | 20.3828 | 26 | 42.7 miles |
| Mesquite | TX | 134,509 | 2 | 15.1606 | 53 | 43.1 miles |
| Allen | TX | 90,456 | 0 | - | 0 | 46.2 miles |
| Rowlett | TX | 57,581 | 0 | - | 0 | 47.2 miles |
| Corsicana | TX | - | 1 | 14.4403 | 62 | 68.1 miles |
| Cisco | TX | - | 1 | 12.0718 | 82 | 98.8 miles |
| Ardmore | OK | - | 1 | 18.2326 | 23 | 99.2 miles |