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2022 Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

6 Ranked Colleges
179 Degrees Awarded
$25,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 5,658 people earned their degree in real estate, making the major the 163rd most popular in the United States. 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 Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in real estate. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent real estate programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the real estate program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree real estate students with aid.

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Real Estate in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

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 #1 for the Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in San Antonio, Texas, this large public school awarded 38 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s real estate 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. The yearly cost to attend UTSA is $13,853 for southwest region bachelor’s degree real estate students with aid.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Texas. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. University of North Texas is a large school located in Denton, Texas that handed out 27 bachelors’s real estate degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree real estate students with aid list, UNT has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Real Estate Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $15,086 for southwest region bachelor’s degree real estate students with aid per year to attend UNT.

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

Full University of North Texas Real Estate Report

#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Arlington. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. Arlington, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s real estate degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UT Arlington, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Real Estate Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend The University of Texas at Arlington is $14,246 for southwest region bachelor’s degree real estate students with aid.

Read more about Real Estate at The University of Texas at Arlington

#4

Texas Christian University

Fort Worth, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Christian University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. This fairly large school is located in Fort Worth, Texas, and it awarded 46 bachelors’s real estate degrees in 2019-2020.

TCU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Real Estate Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $36,811 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Real Estate students with aid per year to attend TCU.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.

Read more about Real Estate at TCU

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #5 spot on the list. Dallas, 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 32 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree real estate students with aid list, SMU has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Real Estate Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $36,222 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Real Estate students with aid per year to attend SMU.

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 did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid ranking, coming in at #6. Baylor University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Waco, Texas. It awarded 30 bachelors’s real estate degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Baylor, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Real Estate Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Baylor is $36,039 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Real Estate students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full Baylor University Real Estate Report

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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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