2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering-Related Technologies 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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Engineering-Related Technologies is the 270th most popular major in the country with 989 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, engineering-related technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $57,339 and had an average of $21,670 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 137 engineering-related technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 engineering-related technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering-related technologies. That schools that top this list have a program in engineering-related technologies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The engineering-related tech school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Southwest Region”.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree engineering-related tech students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering-Related Technologies in the Southwest Region

1

Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Southwest Region list. Texas A&M Corpus Christi is a fairly large public school situated in Corpus Christi, Texas. It awarded 8 bachelors’s engineering-related tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi Engineering-Related Technologies Report

2

New Mexico State University - Main Campus
Las Cruces, New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, this fairly large public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s engineering-related tech students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Engineering-Related Technologies at NMSU Main Campus

3

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Southwest Region list. University of Arizona is a large school located in Tucson, Arizona that handed out 2 bachelors’s engineering-related tech degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Engineering-Related Technologies at University of Arizona

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering-Related Technologies

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.

Credits

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