2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Portuguese is the 1010th most popular major in the country with 86 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 2 Portuguese graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 Portuguese graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in Portuguese. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their Portuguese program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Portuguese in the Southwest Region

1

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Mexico - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s Portuguese degrees in 2020-2021.

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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 #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southwest Region. Austin, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s Portuguese degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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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

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

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