2023 Most Well Attended Chiropractic Major in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 2,658 people earned their degree in chiropractic, making the major the 175th most popular in the United States. 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 “Most Well Attended Chiropractic Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in chiropractic. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in chiropractic.

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Most Well Attended Chiropractic Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Chiropractic in the Southwest Region

1

Parker University
Dallas, Texas

#18 overall quality in Southwest

$42,076 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,333 Average Student Debt

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. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s chiropractic degrees to 233 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about 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 list. Texas Chiropractic College Foundation Inc is located in Pasadena, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 85 ’s chiropractic degrees to qualified students.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Texas Chiropractic College Foundation Inc Chiropractic Report

• Most Popular 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.