2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Literature Major in the Southwest Region

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Literature is the 264th most popular major in the country with 683 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, literature graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $26,788 and had an average of $26,372 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 21 literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,664 and $30,376 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Literature Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in literature. That schools that top this list have a program in literature in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Literature Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Literature in the Southwest Region

1

Lubbock Christian University
Lubbock, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Literature Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lubbock Christian University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Lubbock, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s literature students in 2020-2021.

Full Lubbock Christian University Literature Report

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Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, Arizona

#24 overall quality in Southwest

$21,664 Average Early-Career Earnings

$30,376 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Grand Canyon University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Literature Major in the Southwest Region. Grand Canyon University is a private for-profit institution located in Phoenix, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 5.0% 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 full report on Literature at Grand Canyon University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Literature

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.