by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Rhetoric & Composition is the 297th most popular major in the country with 1,871 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 216 rhetoric and composition graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 134 rhetoric and composition 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 Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer a degree in rhetoric and composition. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their rhetoric and composition program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree rhetoric and composition students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and it awarded 117 bachelors’s rhetoric and composition degrees in 2020-2021.
Full University of New Mexico - Main Campus Rhetoric & Composition Report
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Trinity University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in San Antonio, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 14 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s rhetoric and composition students in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sul Ross State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region. Sul Ross State University is a small school located in Alpine, Texas that handed out 3 bachelors’s rhetoric and composition degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Sul Ross State University Rhetoric & Composition Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern Oklahoma State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region list. NWOSU is a small school located in Alva, Oklahoma that handed out 0 bachelors’s rhetoric and composition degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Texas. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region. Denton, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s rhetoric and composition degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Rhetoric & Composition at University of North Texas
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Tech University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region. Texas Tech University is located in Lubbock, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s rhetoric and composition degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region. New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a fairly large school located in Las Cruces, New Mexico that handed out 0 bachelors’s rhetoric and composition degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Rhetoric & Composition at NMSU Main Campus
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas State University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region. Texas State is located in San Marcos, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 bachelors’s rhetoric and composition degrees to qualified students.
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