2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management Major in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management is the 268th most popular major in the country with 2,709 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 518 crisis/emergency/disaster management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 275 crisis/emergency/disaster management graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in crisis/emergency/disaster management. That schools that top this list have a program in crisis/emergency/disaster management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 6 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management in the Southwest Region

1

Oklahoma State University - Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oklahoma State University - Oklahoma City. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, this small public school handed out 15 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s crisis/emergency/disaster management students in 2020-2021.

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2

West Texas A&M University
Canyon, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend West Texas A&M University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management Major in the Southwest Region. West Texas A&M University is a medium-sized school located in Canyon, Texas that handed out 33 bachelors’s crisis/emergency/disaster management degrees in 2020-2021.

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3

Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, Arizona

#24 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Grand Canyon University landed the #3 spot on the list. Grand Canyon University is a private for-profit institution located in Phoenix, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 175 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%.

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4

University of North Texas
Denton, Texas

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Texas. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management Major in the Southwest Region list. UNT is a large public school situated in Denton, Texas. It awarded 50 bachelors’s crisis/emergency/disaster management degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read full report on Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management at University of North Texas

5

Texas Southern University
Houston, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Southern University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management Major in the Southwest Region. This medium-sized school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s crisis/emergency/disaster management degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Texas Southern University Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management Report

6

University of Phoenix - Arizona
Tempe, Arizona

#13 overall quality in Southwest

University of Phoenix - Arizona ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management Major in the Southwest Region list. UOPX - Arizona is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 4 bachelors’s crisis/emergency/disaster management degrees in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management

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.