2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Science, Technology & Society in the Southwest Region
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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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Science, Tech & Society Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Science, Technology & Society is the 419th most popular major in the country with 1,095 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 45 science, technology and society graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 science, technology and society graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Science, Tech & Society Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in science, technology and society. That schools that top this list have a program in science, technology and society in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Science, Tech & Society Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree science, tech & society students.
Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Science, Technology & Society in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Science, Tech & Society Major in the Southwest Region. Norman, Oklahoma is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s science, tech and society degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Science, Technology & Society at University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Science, Tech & Society Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #2 spot on the list. ASU - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 15 bachelors’s science, tech and society degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Science, Tech & Society Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Tech University landed the #3 spot on the list. Texas Tech University is a large school located in Lubbock, Texas that handed out 0 bachelors’s science, tech and society degrees in 2020-2021.
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%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Science, Technology & Society at Texas Tech University
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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
- *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.