2022 Best Value Colleges for Chiropractic in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

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 “Best Value Chiropractic Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Chiropractic is the 173rd most popular major in the country with 2,596 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, chiropractic graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $35,393 and had an average of $178,471 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 271 chiropractic graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,567 and $186,576 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality chiropractic programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the chiropractic program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Chiropractic Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Chiropractic Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Chiropractic Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Chiropractic in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

Parker University

Dallas, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$22,244 Average Net Price

$21,900 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Chiropractic Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Parker University landed the #1 spot on the list. Parker University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Dallas, Texas. It awarded 205 ’s chiropractic degrees in 2019-2020.

Parker University also made our “Best Chiropractic Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Parker University is $22,244 for southwest region chiropractic students with aid.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Chiropractic at Parker University

• Best Value Colleges for Chiropractic (With Aid)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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 Michael Dorausch.

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