2023 Most Focused Colleges for Portuguese in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 86 people earned their degree in Portuguese, making the major the 1010th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 2 Portuguese graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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 Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region portuguese students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Portuguese in the Southwest Region

1

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

$45,271 Average Early-Career Earnings

$19,843 Average Student Debt

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 Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southwest Region. University of New Mexico - Main Campus is a large public school situated in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It awarded 2 ’s Portuguese degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of New Mexico - Main Campus Portuguese Report

2

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

#6 overall quality in Southwest

$53,632 Average Early-Career Earnings

$20,734 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Austin landed the #2 spot on the list. The University of Texas at Austin is a large school located in Austin, Texas that handed out 0 ’s Portuguese degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Portuguese at UT Austin

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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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Susana Freixeiro.