2023 Most Popular Colleges for Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Nursing Midwifery Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 509 people earned their degree in nurse midwife/nursing midwifery, making the major the 601st most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 18 nurse midwife/nursing midwifery graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Nursing Midwifery Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in nurse midwife/nursing midwifery. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in nurse midwife/nursing midwifery.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Nursing Midwifery Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery in the Southwest Region

1

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Lubbock, Texas

#4 overall quality in Southwest

$71,841 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,223 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Nursing Midwifery Major in the Southwest Region list. Lubbock, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s nursing midwifery degrees to 15 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery at TTUHSC

2

Baylor University
Waco, Texas

#17 overall quality in Southwest

$42,980 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,828 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baylor University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Nursing Midwifery Major in the Southwest Region list. Waco, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s nursing midwifery degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Baylor University Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery 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.

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