2022 Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region
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General Education is the 35th most popular major in the country with 29,936 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $47,138 and had an average of $29,674 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 2,291 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,611 and $29,364 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 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree education students.
Top 9 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Texas Tech is a large school located in Lubbock, Texas that handed out 133 bachelors’s education degrees in 2019-2020.
Texas Tech not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $17,571 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Education students per year to attend Texas Tech University.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at San Antonio. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. UTSA is a large school located in San Antonio, Texas that handed out 82 bachelors’s education degrees in 2019-2020.
UTSA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #7 on our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $13,853 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Education students per year to attend The University of Texas at San Antonio.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southwestern Assemblies of God University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. Southwestern Assemblies of God University is located in Waxahachie, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s education degrees to qualified students.
Southwestern Assemblies of God University also made our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #8. The estimated yearly cost for Southwestern Assemblies of God University is $24,982 for southwest region bachelor’s degree education students.
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Out of the 9 schools in the Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Woman’s University landed the #4 spot on the list. TWU is a fairly large school located in Denton, Texas that handed out 1 bachelors’s education degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at TWU, the school also landed the #9 spot in our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Texas Woman’s University is $9,617 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Education students.
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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 Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. UT Arlington is a large school located in Arlington, Texas that handed out 69 bachelors’s education degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UT Arlington, the school also landed the #6 spot in our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for The University of Texas at Arlington is $14,246 for southwest region bachelor’s degree education students.
With a ranking of #6, Southwestern University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Southwestern University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Georgetown, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Southwestern, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Southwestern University is $25,470 for southwest region bachelor’s degree education students.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 3.9% 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%.
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University of Tulsa landed the #7 spot on the 2022 Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking. University of Tulsa is a small school located in Tulsa, Oklahoma that handed out 3 bachelors’s education degrees in 2019-2020.
University of Tulsa also made our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #4. The yearly cost to attend University of Tulsa is $20,936 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree 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%.
With a ranking of #8, Texas Christian University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Fort Worth, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s education degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.
TCU also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $36,811 for southwest region bachelor’s degree education students per year to attend TCU.
The low student loan default rate of 3.4% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.
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Southern Methodist University came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking. This fairly large school is located in Dallas, Texas, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s education degrees in 2019-2020.
SMU also took the #5 spot in our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend SMU is $36,222 for southwest region bachelor’s degree education students.
The low 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.
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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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