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2022 Best Value Engineering Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

5 Ranked Colleges
50 Degrees Awarded
$14,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Engineering Physics Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Engineering Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Engineering Physics is the 239th most popular major in the country with 941 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, engineering physics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $59,675 and had an average of $20,001 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 65 engineering physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,700 and $3,750 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 50 engineering physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Engineering Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in engineering physics. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent engineering physics programs, but they also cost less that 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 engineering physics program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Engineering Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Physics in the Southwest Region

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Engineering Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Oklahoma landed the #1 spot on the list. UCO is located in Edmond, Oklahoma and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s engineering physics degrees to qualified students.

UCO also made our “Best Engineering Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for UCO is $16,562 for southwest region bachelor’s degree engineering physics students.

Full UCO Engineering Physics Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. UT Rio Grande Valley is a public institution located in Edinburg, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree engineering physics students list, UT Rio Grande Valley has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Engineering Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $4,514 for southwest region bachelor’s degree engineering physics students per year to attend The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UT Rio Grande Valley Engineering Physics Report

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Norman, Oklahoma is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s engineering physics degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

University of Oklahoma also took the #1 spot in our “Best Engineering Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Oklahoma is $21,145 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Physics students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full University of Oklahoma Norman Campus Engineering Physics Report

#5 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Engineering Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #4 spot on the list. NMSU Main Campus is a public institution located in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

NMSU Main Campus did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Engineering Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for New Mexico State University - Main Campus is $8,659 for southwest region bachelor’s degree engineering physics students.

Read more about Engineering Physics at NMSU Main Campus

#5

LeTourneau University

Longview, Texas
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend LeTourneau University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. LeTourneau University is a small school located in Longview, Texas that handed out 1 bachelors’s engineering physics degrees in 2019-2020.

LETU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Engineering Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for LETU is $23,196 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Physics students.

Full LeTourneau University Engineering Physics 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

  • *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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