2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Computer Interaction in the Southwest Region

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 Master’s Highly Focused on Human Computer Interaction Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Human Computer Interaction is the 202nd most popular major in the country with 1,857 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, human computer interaction graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $58,809 and had an average of $26,507 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 64 human computer interaction graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 42 human computer interaction graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Computer Interaction Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in human computer interaction. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their human computer interaction program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Computer Interaction Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree human computer interaction students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Computer Interaction in the Southwest Region

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Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Computer Interaction Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Tempe, Arizona, this large public school handed out 38 diplomas to qualified masters’s human computer interaction students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Human Computer Interaction at Arizona State University - Tempe

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Rice University
Houston, Texas

#1 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rice University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Computer Interaction Major in the Southwest Region. Rice University is a medium-sized school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 4 masters’s human computer interaction degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.

Read full report on Human Computer Interaction at Rice

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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.

Credits

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