2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Cultural Studies & Analysis in the Southwest Region

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Cultural Studies & Analysis is the 300th most popular major in the country with 405 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, cultural studies and analysis graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $29,036 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 36 cultural studies and analysis graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 cultural studies and analysis graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culture Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in cultural studies and analysis. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in cultural studies and analysis.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culture Studies Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culture Studies Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Cultural Studies & Analysis in the Southwest Region

1

Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Kingsville, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - Kingsville. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culture Studies Major in the Southwest Region. This medium-sized school is located in Kingsville, Texas, and it awarded 1 masters’s culture studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Texas A&M Kingsville Cultural Studies & Analysis Report

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Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culture Studies Major in the Southwest Region. ASU - Tempe is located in Tempe, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 masters’s culture studies degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Cultural Studies & Analysis at ASU - Tempe

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Cultural Studies & Analysis

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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