2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Science, Technology & Society in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Science, Tech & Society Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 1,095 people earned their degree in science, technology and society, making the major the 232nd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, science, technology and society graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $41,177 and had an average of $22,529 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 45 science, technology and society graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,539 and $28,750 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 science, technology and society graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Science, Tech & Society Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in science, technology and society. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their science, technology and society program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Science, Tech & Society Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Science, Tech & Society Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Science, Technology & Society in the Southwest Region

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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 #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Science, Tech & Society Major in the Southwest Region. ASU - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 14 masters’s science, tech and society degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Arizona State University - Tempe Science, Technology & Society Report

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Arizona State University - Skysong
Scottsdale, Arizona

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Science, Tech & Society Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Skysong landed the #2 spot on the list. Arizona State University - Skysong is located in Scottsdale, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s science, tech and society degrees to qualified students.

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%.

Read more about Science, Technology & Society at Arizona State University - Skysong

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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.