2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Linguistics Major in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Linguistics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 198 people earned their degree in applied linguistics, making the major the 862nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 32 applied linguistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 applied linguistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Linguistics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in applied linguistics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their applied linguistics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Linguistics Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree applied linguistics students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Applied Linguistics in the Southwest Region

1

Texas A&M University - Commerce
Commerce, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - Commerce. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Linguistics Major in the Southwest Region. This fairly large school is located in Commerce, Texas, and it awarded 18 masters’s applied linguistics degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Applied Linguistics at Texas A&M University - Commerce

2

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Linguistics Major in the Southwest Region. University of Arizona is a public institution located in Tucson, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Applied Linguistics at University of Arizona

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Applied Linguistics

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

• *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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Pandit Rahul Sanskrutayan, Banshidhar Mohanty.