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2022 Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

4 Ranked Colleges
462 Degrees Awarded
$14,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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.

This year’s “Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students with aid.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1 in overall quality

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 Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in Austin, Texas, this large public school awarded 99 degrees to qualified bachelors’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies students in 2019-2020.

UT Austin not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $18,023 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies students with aid 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.

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#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. ASU - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 34 bachelors’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees in 2019-2020.

ASU - Tempe also took the #2 spot in our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend ASU - Tempe is $11,706 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies students with aid.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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#3

University of New Mexico - Main Campus

Albuquerque, New Mexico
#5 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 Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Mexico - Main Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. Albuquerque, New Mexico 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 45 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students with aid list, UNM has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus is $14,446 for southwest region bachelor’s degree area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students with aid.

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#4

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arizona. 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 Getting Aid. 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 $15,016 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies students with aid 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.

Full University of Arizona Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Report

#4 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 Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Skysong landed the #5 spot on the list. Arizona State University - 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.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at ASU - Skysong, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $13,971 for southwest region bachelor’s degree area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students with aid per year to attend Arizona State University - Skysong.

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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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