2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computer Programming in the Southwest Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 the Southwest region, there were 1,256 computer programming graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,849 and $24,337 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 0 computer programming graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in computer programming. That schools that top this list have a program in computer programming in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree programming students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computer Programming in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Aspen University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in the Southwest Region list. Aspen University is a medium-sized school located in Denver, Colorado that handed out 5 masters’s programming degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 5.0% 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 undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read more about Computer Programming at Aspen University
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Grand Canyon University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, this large private for-profit school handed out 50 diplomas to qualified masters’s programming students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Computer Programming at Grand Canyon University
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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
- *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.
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