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2022 Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

6 Ranked Colleges
179 Degrees Awarded
$17,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Real Estate is the 163rd most popular major in the country with 5,658 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, real estate graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $59,476 and had an average of $30,114 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 895 real estate graduates with average earnings and debt of $50,767 and $24,618 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 179 real estate graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in real estate. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality real estate programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the real estate program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree real estate students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Real Estate (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Texas landed the #1 spot on the list. Denton, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s real estate degrees to 27 students in 2019-2020.

UNT did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Real Estate Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend UNT is $8,521 for southwest region bachelor’s degree real estate students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Real Estate at UNT

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at San Antonio. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k. San Antonio, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s real estate degrees to 38 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UTSA, the school also landed the #6 spot in our “Best Real Estate Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $10,516 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Real Estate students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Read full report on Real Estate at The University of Texas at San Antonio

#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at Arlington. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Located in Arlington, Texas, this large public school handed out 6 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s real estate students in 2019-2020.

UT Arlington not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Real Estate Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for UT Arlington is $11,811 for southwest region bachelor’s degree real estate students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full UT Arlington Real Estate Report

#4

Texas Christian University

Fort Worth, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Christian University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Fort Worth, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s real estate degrees to 46 students in 2019-2020.

TCU also made our “Best Real Estate Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for TCU is $21,286 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Real Estate students whose families make $0-$30k.

The low student loan default rate of 3.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Texas Christian University Real Estate Report

#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Southern Methodist University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Dallas, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 32 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

SMU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Real Estate Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Southern Methodist University is $26,718 for southwest region bachelor’s degree real estate students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read more about Real Estate at Southern Methodist University

#6

Baylor University

Waco, Texas

Baylor University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k ranking. Baylor University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Waco, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 30 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Baylor also made our “Best Real Estate Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $26,726 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Real Estate students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Baylor.

With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 3.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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