2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region

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Comparative Literature is the 434th most popular major in the country with 964 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 44 comparative literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 comparative literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in comparative literature. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in comparative literature.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Comparative Literature in the Southwest Region

1

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region. University of New Mexico - Main Campus is a large school located in Albuquerque, New Mexico that handed out 4 masters’s comparative literature degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

The University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, Texas

#21 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at Dallas. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region. Richardson, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s comparative literature degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

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The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

#6 overall quality in Southwest

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 #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region. The University of Texas at Austin is located in Austin, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s comparative literature degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Comparative Literature at The University of Texas at Austin

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Comparative Literature

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.