2022 Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region
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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” 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.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the real estate program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree real estate students.
Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Real Estate in the Southwest Region
Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region 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.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UNT, the school also landed the #4 spot 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 per year to attend University of North Texas.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at San Antonio. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Located in San Antonio, Texas, this large public school handed out 38 degrees to qualified bachelors’s real estate students in 2019-2020.
UTSA also made our “Best Real Estate Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #6. The estimated yearly cost for The University of Texas at San Antonio is $13,853 for southwest region bachelor’s degree real estate students.
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Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Arlington landed the #3 spot on the list. This large school is located in Arlington, Texas, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s real estate degrees in 2019-2020.
UT Arlington did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Real Estate Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for UT Arlington is $14,246 for southwest region bachelor’s degree real estate students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Baylor University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. Baylor is a fairly large school located in Waco, Texas that handed out 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 a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Christian University landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Fort Worth, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 46 degrees to qualified bachelors’s real estate 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 yearly cost to attend TCU is $36,811 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Real Estate students.
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%.
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Southern Methodist University did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #6. Located in Dallas, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 32 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s real estate students in 2019-2020.
SMU also made our “Best Real Estate Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend Southern Methodist University is $36,222 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Real Estate students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 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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