by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Textile Studies Major in Kentucky” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Textile & Apparel Studies is the 161st most popular major in the country with 3,313 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, textile and apparel studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,996 and had an average of $24,229 in loans still to pay off.
Across Kentucky, there were 98 textile and apparel studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,067 and $25,125 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 95 textile and apparel studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,941 and $26,734 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Textile Studies Major in Kentucky” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in textile and apparel studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in textile and apparel studies.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Textile Studies Major in Kentucky” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for kentucky bachelor’s degree textile studies students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Textile Studies Major in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Kentucky University landed the #1 spot on the list. WKU is a fairly large public school situated in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It awarded 41 bachelors’s textile studies degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kentucky. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Textile Studies Major in Kentucky. Located in Lexington, Kentucky, this large public school handed out 54 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s textile studies students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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