2022 Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region
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 “Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Education is the 28th most popular major in the country with 29,936 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.
Across the Southwest region, there were 2,291 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 316 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 9 colleges that offer a degree in general education. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general education program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region.
Top 9 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Tech University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Lubbock, Texas, and it awarded 133 bachelors’s general education degrees in 2019-2020.
Texas Tech also made our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #3. The estimated yearly cost for Texas Tech is $17,571 for southwest region bachelor’s degree general education students.
With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.
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 General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. San Antonio, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s general education degrees to 82 students in 2019-2020.
UTSA also took the #7 spot in our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UTSA is $13,853 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Education students.
Out of the 9 schools in the Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southwestern Assemblies of God University landed the #3 spot on the list. Waxahachie, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s general education degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.
Southwestern Assemblies of God University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #8 on our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $24,982 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Education students per year to attend Southwestern Assemblies of God University.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Woman’s University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Denton, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s general education degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.
TWU also made our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #9. The estimated yearly cost for TWU is $9,617 for southwest region bachelor’s degree general education students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Arlington. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Located in Arlington, Texas, this large public school awarded 69 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s general education students in 2019-2020.
UT Arlington also took the #6 spot in our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $14,246 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Education students per year to attend The University of Texas at Arlington.
With a ranking of #6, Southwestern University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. This small school is located in Georgetown, Texas, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s general education degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree general education students list, Southwestern has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $25,470 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Education students per year to attend Southwestern University.
The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.
University of Tulsa ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. This small school is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s general education degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree general education students list, University of Tulsa has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Tulsa is $20,936 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Education students.
The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Texas Christian University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking. Texas Christian University is located in Fort Worth, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s general education degrees to qualified students.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at TCU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend TCU is $36,811 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Education students.
The student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.
Southern Methodist University landed the #9 spot on the 2022 Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking. Located in Dallas, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 9 degrees to qualified bachelors’s general education students in 2019-2020.
SMU also took the #5 spot in our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $36,222 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Education students per year to attend SMU.
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 school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national 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%.
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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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