by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” 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 “Most Well Attended Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer a degree in rhetoric and composition. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in rhetoric and composition.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s list. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s rhetoric and composition degrees to 117 students in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Trinity University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s. Located in San Antonio, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 14 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s rhetoric and composition students in 2020-2021.
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 impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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 Most Well Attended Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s. This small school is located in Alpine, Texas, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s rhetoric and composition degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Texas. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Denton, Texas, this large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s rhetoric and composition students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
Read full report on Rhetoric & Composition at University of North Texas
Out of the 8 schools in the Most Well Attended Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Tech University landed the #4 spot on the list. Texas Tech University is a large public school situated in Lubbock, Texas. It awarded 0 bachelors’s rhetoric and composition degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, this fairly large public school handed out 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s rhetoric and composition students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Rhetoric & Composition at New Mexico State University - Main Campus
Out of the 8 schools in the Most Well Attended Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern Oklahoma State University landed the #4 spot on the list. This small school is located in Alva, Oklahoma, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s rhetoric and composition degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Rhetoric & Composition at Northwestern Oklahoma State University
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 Most Well Attended Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s. Located in San Marcos, Texas, this large public school awarded 9 degrees to qualified bachelors’s rhetoric and composition students in 2020-2021.
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