2023 Most Well Attended Literature Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s

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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 “Most Well Attended Literature Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in literature. To top this list, a school must have a successful literature program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Literature Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree literature students.

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

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Lubbock Christian University
Lubbock, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lubbock Christian University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Literature Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s list. Lubbock Christian University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Lubbock, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full LCU 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

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Literature Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Grand Canyon University landed the #2 spot on the list. Phoenix, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s literature degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Grand Canyon University Literature Report

• Most Popular 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.