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2022 Best Value Individualized Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

5 Ranked Colleges
516 Degrees Awarded
$25,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Individualized Studies Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Individualized Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Individualized Studies is the 35th most popular major in the country with 36,493 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 722 individualized studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 516 individualized studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Individualized Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in individualized studies. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great individualized studies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the individualized studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Individualized Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree individualized studies students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Individualized Studies (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Austin. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Individualized Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. UT Austin is a large school located in Austin, Texas that handed out 81 bachelors’s individualized studies degrees in 2019-2020.

UT Austin did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Individualized Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend UT Austin is $20,454 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Individualized Studies students whose families make $75-$110k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full The University of Texas at Austin Individualized Studies Report

#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - Commerce. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Individualized Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k. Located in Commerce, Texas, this fairly large public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s individualized studies students in 2019-2020.

Texas A&M Commerce also made our “Best Individualized Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #5. It costs about $19,060 for southwest region bachelor’s degree individualized studies students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Texas A&M Commerce.

Full Texas A&M Commerce Individualized Studies Report

#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Individualized Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Norman, Oklahoma is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s individualized studies degrees to 155 students in 2019-2020.

University of Oklahoma also took the #3 spot in our “Best Individualized Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $24,730 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Individualized Studies students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 4.7% 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 full report on Individualized Studies at University of Oklahoma Norman Campus

#4

Wayland Baptist University

Plainview, Texas
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wayland Baptist University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Individualized Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k. Wayland Baptist University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Plainview, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 205 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Wayland Baptist University also took the #4 spot in our “Best Individualized Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $28,442 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Individualized Studies students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Wayland Baptist University.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Individualized Studies at Wayland Baptist University

#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Individualized Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Located in Dallas, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 47 degrees to qualified bachelors’s individualized studies students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at SMU, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Individualized Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $34,587 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Individualized Studies students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Southern Methodist University.

The low student loan default rate of 4.3% 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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Southern Methodist University Individualized Studies 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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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