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2022 Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

4 Ranked Colleges
462 Degrees Awarded
$19,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies is the 30th most popular major in the country with 16,240 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $30,827 and had an average of $22,562 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 750 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,463 and $23,603 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 462 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies 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 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Austin landed the #1 spot on the list. UT Austin is located in Austin, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 99 bachelors’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees to qualified students.

UT Austin also took the #1 spot in our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $20,454 for southwest region bachelor’s degree area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend UT Austin.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full The University of Texas at Austin Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Report

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Tempe, Arizona, this large public school awarded 34 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies students in 2019-2020.

ASU - Tempe did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $17,373 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Arizona State University - Tempe.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies at ASU - Tempe

#3

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #3 spot on the list. Tucson, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees to 73 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at University of Arizona, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $20,200 for southwest region bachelor’s degree area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend University of Arizona.

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 more about Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies at University of Arizona

#4

University of New Mexico - Main Campus

Albuquerque, New Mexico
#5 in overall quality

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 #4 for the Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k. UNM is a public institution located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The school has a large population, and it awarded 45 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UNM also made our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #5. The yearly cost to attend UNM is $18,920 for southwest region bachelor’s degree area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students whose families make $75-$110k.

Full UNM Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Report

#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Skysong. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. ASU - Skysong is located in Scottsdale, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 12 bachelors’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees to qualified students.

ASU - Skysong did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Arizona State University - Skysong is $20,321 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies students whose families make $75-$110k.

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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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