2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Home Economics Teacher Education Major in the Southwest Region

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Family & Consumer Sciences/Home Economics Teacher Education is the 720th most popular major in the country with 286 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 16 family and consumer sciences/home economics teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 family and consumer sciences/home economics teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Home Economics Teacher Education Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in family and consumer sciences/home economics teacher education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in family and consumer sciences/home economics teacher education.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Home Economics Teacher Education Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree home economics teacher education students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Family & Consumer Sciences/Home Economics Teacher Education in the Southwest Region

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Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas

#23 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Home Economics Teacher Education Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Tech University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Lubbock, Texas, and it awarded 6 masters’s home economics teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%.

Full Texas Tech University Family & Consumer Sciences/Home Economics Teacher Education Report

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Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Stillwater, Oklahoma

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Home Economics Teacher Education Major in the Southwest Region. Oklahoma State University - Main Campus is a large school located in Stillwater, Oklahoma that handed out 0 masters’s home economics teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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%.

Read more about Family & Consumer Sciences/Home Economics Teacher Education at OSU

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Family & Consumer Sciences/Home Economics Teacher Education

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

• *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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