2023 Most Focused Colleges for Urban Education & Leadership in the Southwest Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Urban Education and Leadership Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Urban Education & Leadership is the 498th most popular major in the country with 832 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 30 urban education & leadership graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in urban education & leadership in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools Highly Focused on Urban Education and Leadership Major in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Urban Education and Leadership Major in the Southwest Region”.
Top 1 Most Focused Colleges for Urban Education & Leadership in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Methodist University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Urban Education and Leadership Major in the Southwest Region. SMU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Dallas, Texas. It awarded 30 ’s urban education and leadership degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.
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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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