2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on International Studies Major in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 an Associate Highly Focused on International Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

International Studies is the 100th most popular major in the country with 7,368 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, international studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,198 and had an average of $21,594 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,146 international studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,581 and $19,950 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 international studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on International Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in international studies. That schools that top this list have a program in international studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on International Studies Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree international studies students.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for International Studies in the Southwest Region

1

Murray State College
Tishomingo, Oklahoma

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on International Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Murray State College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, this small public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified associates’s international studies students in 2020-2021.

Read more about International Studies at Murray State College

2

Northwest Vista College
San Antonio, Texas

Top 10% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on International Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwest Vista College landed the #2 spot on the list. Northwest Vista College is a fairly large school located in San Antonio, Texas that handed out 0 associates’s international studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Northwest Vista College International Studies Report

2

San Antonio College
San Antonio, Texas

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend San Antonio College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on International Studies Major in the Southwest Region. Located in San Antonio, Texas, this fairly large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified associates’s international studies students in 2020-2021.

Full San Antonio College International 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

• *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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