by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 ASL Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
American Sign Language is the 199th most popular major in the country with 2,724 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, American Sign Language graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $32,250 and had an average of $24,208 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 456 American Sign Language graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,816 and $13,895 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 41 American Sign Language graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ASL Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in American Sign Language. That schools that top this list have a program in American Sign Language in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree asl students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lamar University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ASL Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Beaumont, Texas, this fairly large public school awarded 15 degrees to qualified bachelors’s ASL students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ASL Major in the Southwest Region list. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s ASL degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ASL Major in the Southwest Region list. UH is a public institution located in Houston, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 12 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ASL Major in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s ASL degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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%.
Read full report on American Sign Language at Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ASL Major in the Southwest Region list. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is a large school located in Edinburg, Texas that handed out 0 bachelors’s ASL degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on American Sign Language at UT Rio Grande Valley
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