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2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in the Southwest Region

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Schools for a Bachelor's Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in the Southwest Region

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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 2,214 people earned their degree in natural sciences, making the major the 208th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, natural sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $25,745 and had an average of $18,648 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 941 natural sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 34 natural sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in natural sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in natural sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

Top 6 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Sciences in the Southwest Region

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Oklahoma Baptist University
Shawnee, Oklahoma

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma Baptist University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in the Southwest Region list. Oklahoma Baptist University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Shawnee, Oklahoma. It awarded 10 bachelors’s natural sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Christian University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Fort Worth, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 22 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s natural sciences students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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%.

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Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma is a public institution located in Chickasha, Oklahoma. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dallas Baptist University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in the Southwest Region list. This small school is located in Dallas, Texas, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s natural sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Our Lady of the Lake University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in the Southwest Region list. OLLU is a private not-for-profit institution located in San Antonio, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #5 spot on the list. University of Arizona is a large school located in Tucson, Arizona that handed out 4 bachelors’s natural sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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