2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Bioethics/Medical Ethics 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 “Most Well Attended Medical Ethics Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Bioethics/Medical Ethics is the 133rd most popular major in the country with 5,115 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, bioethics/medical ethics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $27,334 and had an average of $18,277 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 741 bioethics/medical ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 495 bioethics/medical ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Medical Ethics Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in bioethics/medical ethics. To top this list, a school must have a successful bioethics/medical ethics program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Medical Ethics Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Bioethics/Medical Ethics in the Southwest Region

1

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Edinburg, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Medical Ethics Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley landed the #1 spot on the list. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is a public institution located in Edinburg, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 15 masters’s 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%.

Full The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Bioethics/Medical Ethics Report

2

The University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas

#3 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Medical Ethics Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas Medical Branch landed the #2 spot on the list. UTMB Galveston is located in Galveston, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 12 masters’s medical ethics degrees to qualified students.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full The University of Texas Medical Branch Bioethics/Medical Ethics Report

• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Bioethics/Medical Ethics

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.