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2022 Best Value Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

5 Ranked Colleges
416 Degrees Awarded
$13,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Rhetoric & Composition is the 232nd most popular major in the country with 2,482 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 595 rhetoric and composition graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 416 rhetoric and composition graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in rhetoric and composition. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent rhetoric and composition programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the rhetoric and composition program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

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

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Rhetoric & Composition in the Southwest Region

#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Texas. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in Denton, Texas, and it awarded 110 bachelors’s rhetoric and composition degrees in 2019-2020.

UNT did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Rhetoric & Composition Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend University of North Texas is $15,086 for southwest region bachelor’s degree rhetoric and composition students.

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

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#2

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Tech University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. Texas Tech University is a large public school situated in Lubbock, Texas. It awarded 148 bachelors’s rhetoric and composition degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree rhetoric and composition students list, Texas Tech has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Rhetoric & Composition Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Texas Tech is $17,571 for southwest region bachelor’s degree rhetoric and composition students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

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#3

University of New Mexico - Main Campus

Albuquerque, New Mexico
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. University of New Mexico - Main Campus is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 113 bachelors’s rhetoric and composition degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree rhetoric and composition students list, UNM has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Rhetoric & Composition Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UNM is $14,446 for southwest region bachelor’s degree rhetoric and composition students.

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#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - Commerce. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Texas A&M Commerce is located in Commerce, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 10 bachelors’s rhetoric and composition degrees to qualified students.

Texas A&M Commerce not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Rhetoric & Composition Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $13,017 for southwest region bachelor’s degree rhetoric and composition students per year to attend Texas A&M Commerce.

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#4 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Rhetoric and Composition 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 #5 spot on the list. New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a public institution located in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at NMSU Main Campus, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Rhetoric & Composition Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus is $8,659 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Rhetoric and Composition students.

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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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