by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in Texas” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 11,939 people earned their degree in computer programming, making the major the 108th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, computer programming graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $45,629 and had an average of $27,450 in loans still to pay off.
Across Texas, there were 680 computer programming graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,684 and $19,146 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 computer programming graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,932 and $25,894 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in Texas” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in computer programming. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their computer programming program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in Texas” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in Texas”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hardin - Simmons University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in Texas list. Hardin - Simmons is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Abilene, Texas. It awarded 9 bachelors’s programming degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Phoenix - Texas. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in Texas. University of Phoenix - Texas is located in Houston, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s programming degrees to qualified students.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Lamar University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Beaumont, Texas, this fairly large public school awarded 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s programming students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Austin Community College District landed the #4 spot on the list. Austin Community College District is located in Austin, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 92 bachelors’s programming degrees to qualified students.
Full Austin Community College District Computer Programming Report
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