2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions in the Southwest Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Other Health Professions is the 102nd most popular major in the country with 7,984 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, other health professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $45,061 and had an average of $24,616 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 218 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,105 and $18,880 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 28 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other health professions. That schools that top this list have a program in other health professions in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree health professions students.
Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Methodist University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the Southwest Region. Southern Methodist University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Dallas, Texas. It awarded 27 bachelors’s health professions degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full SMU Other Health Professions Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northeastern State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the Southwest Region. Tahlequah, Oklahoma is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s health professions degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% 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%.
Read more about Other Health Professions at NSU
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Tulsa landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s health professions students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%.
Read more about Other Health Professions at University of Tulsa
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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
- *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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