2023 Most Well Attended Chiropractic Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Chiropractic Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate” 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. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 318 chiropractic graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,218 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Chiropractic Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in chiropractic. To top this list, a school must have a successful chiropractic program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Chiropractic Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree chiropractic students.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Chiropractic in the Southwest Region

1

Parker University
Dallas, Texas

#18 overall quality in Southwest

$35,259 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Parker University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Chiropractic Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate. Parker University is a small school located in Dallas, Texas that handed out 233 doctorate’s chiropractic degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 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.

Read full report on Chiropractic at Parker University

2

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 #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Chiropractic Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate list. Located in Pasadena, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 85 degrees to qualified doctorate’s chiropractic students in 2020-2021.

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

Full Texas Chiropractic College Foundation Inc Chiropractic Report

• Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Chiropractic

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.