2024 Best Value Colleges for Educational Assessment, Testing, & Measurement in the Southwest Region

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 “Best Value Educational Assessment, Testing, and Measurement Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Educational Assessment, Testing, & Measurement is the 1016th most popular major in the country with 129 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 45 educational assessment, testing, & measurement graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Educational Assessment, Testing, and Measurement Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in educational assessment, testing, & measurement. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality educational assessment, testing, & measurement 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 educational assessment, testing, & measurement program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Educational Assessment, Testing, and Measurement Schools in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region educational assessment, testing, and measurement students.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Educational Assessment, Testing, & Measurement in the Southwest Region

1

Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Weatherford, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$13,202 Average Net Price

$45,852 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southwestern Oklahoma State University. It ranked #1 on our 2024 Best Value Educational Assessment, Testing, and Measurement Schools in the Southwest Region list. Southwestern Oklahoma State University is a small school located in Weatherford, Oklahoma that handed out 21 ’s educational assessment, testing, and measurement degrees in 2020-2021.

SWOSU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Educational Assessment, Testing, & Measurement Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $13,202 for Southwest Region Educational Assessment, Testing, and Measurement students per year to attend SWOSU.

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2

University of the Southwest
Hobbs, New Mexico

#2 in overall quality

$17,336 Average Net Price

$42,227 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the Southwest. It ranked #2 on our 2024 Best Value Educational Assessment, Testing, and Measurement Schools in the Southwest Region list. University of the Southwest is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Hobbs, New Mexico. It awarded 10 ’s educational assessment, testing, and measurement degrees in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at USW, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Educational Assessment, Testing, & Measurement Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $17,336 for Southwest Region Educational Assessment, Testing, and Measurement students per year to attend University of the Southwest.

Read full report on Educational Assessment, Testing, & Measurement at University of the Southwest

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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.

Credits

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