by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Corrections Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 4,039 people earned their degree in corrections, making the major the 434th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 1,281 corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 168 corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Corrections Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in corrections. To top this list, a school must have a successful corrections program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Corrections Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree corrections students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Corrections Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s list. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s corrections degrees to 128 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Langston University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Corrections Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s. Langston University is located in Langston, Oklahoma and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 19 bachelors’s corrections degrees to qualified students.
Out of the 7 schools in the Most Well Attended Corrections Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma City University landed the #3 spot on the list. Oklahoma City University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It awarded 10 bachelors’s corrections degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the Southwest. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Corrections Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s list. Hobbs, New Mexico is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s corrections degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Oklahoma. The school came in at #5 for the Most Well Attended Corrections Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s. Edmond, Oklahoma is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s corrections degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 7 schools in the Most Well Attended Corrections Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Stephen F Austin State University landed the #5 spot on the list. SFASU is a public institution located in Nacogdoches, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 7 schools in the Most Well Attended Corrections Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State University landed the #5 spot on the list. Texas State is a large school located in San Marcos, Texas that handed out 1 bachelors’s corrections degrees in 2020-2021.
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