2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Women’s Studies 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 “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Women’s Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Women’s Studies is the 259th most popular major in the country with 2,868 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 138 women’s studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 women’s studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,218 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Women’s Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in women’s studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their women’s studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Women’s Studies Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree women’s studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Women’s Studies in the Southwest Region

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Texas Woman's University
Denton, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Woman’s University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Women’s Studies Major in the Southwest Region. Denton, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s women’s studies degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Women’s Studies at TWU

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University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Women’s Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s women’s studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read more about Women’s Studies at University of Arizona

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Women’s Studies

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

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