2023 Most Focused Colleges for Housing in Texas
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$36,800
Avg Cost*
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools Highly Focused on Housing Major in Texas” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 302 people earned their degree in housing, making the major the 316th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, housing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $45,369 and had an average of $23,582 in loans still to pay off.
Across Texas, there were 12 housing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Housing Major in Texas” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in housing. That schools that top this list have a program in housing in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools Highly Focused on Housing Major in Texas
The colleges and universities below are the best for texas housing students.
Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Housing in Texas
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Housing Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Tech University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Lubbock, Texas, this large public school awarded 12 degrees to qualified ’s housing students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Housing at Texas Tech University
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Housing Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Southern Methodist University is located in Dallas, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 ’s housing degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Housing at SMU
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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
- *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.
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