2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Multicultural & Diversity Studies in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 482 people earned their degree in multicultural and diversity studies, making the major the 305th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, multicultural and diversity studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $33,974 and had an average of $22,914 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 33 multicultural and diversity studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 multicultural and diversity studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

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

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Multiculturalism Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Multicultural & Diversity Studies in the Southwest Region

1

Randall University
Moore, Oklahoma

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Randall University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Multiculturalism Major in the Southwest Region list. Randall University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Moore, Oklahoma. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Multicultural & Diversity Studies at Randall University

2

University of the Incarnate Word
San Antonio, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the Incarnate Word. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Multiculturalism Major in the Southwest Region list. UIW is a private not-for-profit institution located in San Antonio, Texas. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 5.0% 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 Multicultural & Diversity Studies at University of the Incarnate Word

3

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

#6 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Multiculturalism Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Austin landed the #3 spot on the list. Austin, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s multiculturalism degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Multicultural & Diversity Studies at The University of Texas at Austin

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Multicultural & Diversity Studies

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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Dillon White.