2023 Schools Highly Focused on Russian Studies Major in the Southwest Region

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Russian Studies is the 878th most popular major in the country with 166 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 19 Russian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

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

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Schools Highly Focused on Russian Studies Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Russian Studies Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Russian Studies in the Southwest Region

1

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

#6 overall quality in Southwest

$53,632 Average Early-Career Earnings

$20,734 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at Austin. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Russian Studies Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Austin, Texas, this large public school handed out 19 degrees to qualified ’s Russian studies students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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%.

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2

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

$45,271 Average Early-Career Earnings

$19,843 Average Student Debt

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 #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Russian Studies Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this large public school handed out 0 degrees to qualified ’s Russian studies students in 2020-2021.

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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

• *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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Karl Udo Gerth.