2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Safety Technology in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Safety Tech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Industrial Safety Technology is the 768th most popular major in the country with 274 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 92 industrial safety technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 81 industrial safety technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Safety Tech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in industrial safety technology/technician. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in industrial safety technology/technician.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Safety Tech Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Safety Tech Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Safety Technology in the Southwest Region

1

Northeastern State University
Tahlequah, Oklahoma

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Safety Tech Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northeastern State University landed the #1 spot on the list. NSU is a medium-sized school located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma that handed out 62 bachelors’s industrial safety tech degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Industrial Safety Technology at NSU

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University of Houston - Downtown
Houston, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston - Downtown. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Safety Tech Major in the Southwest Region list. This fairly large school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 19 bachelors’s industrial safety tech degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad 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%.

Full University of Houston - Downtown Industrial Safety Technology Report

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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

• *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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