2022 Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Secondary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2019-2020, 9,530 people earned their degree in secondary education, making the major the 88th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 1,854 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 369 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 10 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in secondary education. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality secondary education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the secondary education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region.
Top 10 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Grand Canyon University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, this large private for-profit school handed out 84 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s secondary teaching students in 2019-2020.
Grand Canyon University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Grand Canyon University is $21,020 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Secondary Teaching students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. OSU is a public institution located in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The school has a large population, and it awarded 30 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree secondary teaching students list, OSU has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $14,648 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Secondary Teaching students per year to attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lubbock Christian University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. This small school is located in Lubbock, Texas, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s secondary teaching degrees in 2019-2020.
LCU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $24,128 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Secondary Teaching students per year to attend Lubbock Christian University.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. Tempe, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s secondary teaching degrees to 190 students in 2019-2020.
ASU - Tempe did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $11,706 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Secondary Teaching students per year to attend ASU - Tempe.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of the Southwest. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. University of the Southwest is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Hobbs, New Mexico. It awarded 2 bachelors’s secondary teaching degrees in 2019-2020.
USW did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #8 on our “Best Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $20,850 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Secondary Teaching students per year to attend University of the Southwest.
Read full report on Secondary Education at University of the Southwest
With a ranking of #6, University of New Mexico - Main Campus did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. UNM is a large public school situated in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It awarded 24 bachelors’s secondary teaching degrees in 2019-2020.
UNM also made our “Best Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #6. The estimated yearly cost for UNM is $14,446 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Secondary Teaching students.
Mid-America Christian University landed the #7 spot on the 2022 Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking. Mid-America Christian University is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s secondary teaching degrees to qualified students.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at MACU, the school also landed the #9 spot in our “Best Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for MACU is $20,746 for southwest region bachelor’s degree secondary teaching students.
New Mexico State University - Main Campus ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. NMSU Main Campus is located in Las Cruces, New Mexico and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 14 bachelors’s secondary teaching degrees to qualified students.
In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree secondary teaching students list, NMSU Main Campus has also earned the #7 rank in our “Best Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $8,659 for southwest region bachelor’s degree secondary teaching students per year to attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus.
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Langston University did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #9. This small school is located in Langston, Oklahoma, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s secondary teaching degrees in 2019-2020.
Langston University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #10 on our “Best Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $12,131 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Secondary Teaching students per year to attend Langston University.
With a ranking of #10, Concordia University, Texas did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. This small school is located in Lakeway, Texas, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s secondary teaching degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree secondary teaching students list, Concordia University, Texas has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Concordia University, Texas is $23,444 for southwest region bachelor’s degree secondary teaching 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%.
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.
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