2023 Most Focused Colleges for Chiropractic in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Chiropractic Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Chiropractic is the 175th most popular major in the country with 2,658 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, chiropractic graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $40,463 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 318 chiropractic graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,550 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Chiropractic Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in chiropractic. That schools that top this list have a program in chiropractic in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools Highly Focused on Chiropractic Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Chiropractic in the Southwest Region

1

Texas Chiropractic College Foundation Inc
Pasadena, Texas

$54,844 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Chiropractic College Foundation Inc. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Chiropractic Major in the Southwest Region list. Pasadena, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s chiropractic degrees to 85 students in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Chiropractic at Texas Chiropractic College Foundation Inc

2

Parker University
Dallas, Texas

#18 overall quality in Southwest

$42,076 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,333 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Chiropractic Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Parker University landed the #2 spot on the list. Parker University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Dallas, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 233 ’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The undergraduate 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.

Full Parker University Chiropractic Report

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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 Michael Dorausch.