2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Development Economics & International Development in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 593 people earned their degree in development economics and international development, making the major the 536th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 12 development economics and international development graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 development economics and international development graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Development Economics and International Development Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in development economics and international development. That schools that top this list have a program in development economics and international development in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Development Economics and International Development Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Development Economics & International Development in the Southwest Region

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University of St. Thomas
Houston, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of St. Thomas. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Development Economics and International Development Major in the Southwest Region. University of St. Thomas is located in Houston, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 bachelors’s development economics and international development degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% 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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Trinity University
San Antonio, Texas

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Trinity University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Development Economics and International Development Major in the Southwest Region list. Trinity University is located in San Antonio, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s development economics and international development degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

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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%.

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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.

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