2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Project Management is the 250th most popular major in the country with 4,237 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 680 project management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 36 project management graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in project management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their project management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree project management students.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Project Management in the Southwest Region

1

Northern New Mexico College
Espanola, New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northern New Mexico College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region. This small school is located in Espanola, New Mexico, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s project management degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Project Management at Northern New Mexico College

2

University of the Incarnate Word
San Antonio, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of the Incarnate Word. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region. San Antonio, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s project management degrees to 27 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Project Management at UIW

3

Amberton University
Garland, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Amberton University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region. Amberton University is a small school located in Garland, Texas that handed out 1 bachelors’s project management degrees in 2020-2021.

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4

University of North Texas
Denton, Texas

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Texas landed the #4 spot on the list. UNT is located in Denton, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s project management degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Project Management at UNT

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Project 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.