2022 Best Value Photography Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region
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Photography is the 291st most popular major in the country with 2,438 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.
Across the Southwest region, there were 113 photography graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 79 photography graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Photography Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in photography. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality photography programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the photography program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Photography Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Photography Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region.
Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Photography in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sam Houston State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Photography Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. SHSU is a large school located in Huntsville, Texas that handed out 4 bachelors’s photography degrees in 2019-2020.
SHSU also made our “Best Photography Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend Sam Houston State University is $14,617 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Photography students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northern Arizona University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Photography Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. Northern Arizona University is a large public school situated in Flagstaff, Arizona. It awarded 27 bachelors’s photography degrees in 2019-2020.
NAU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Photography Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for NAU is $12,915 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Photography students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - Commerce. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Photography Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Located in Commerce, Texas, this fairly large public school handed out 6 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s photography students in 2019-2020.
Texas A&M Commerce did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Photography Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Texas A&M University - Commerce is $13,017 for southwest region bachelor’s degree photography students.
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Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Photography Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston landed the #4 spot on the list. University of Houston is a large school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 10 bachelors’s photography degrees in 2019-2020.
UH did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Photography Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend University of Houston is $12,838 for southwest region bachelor’s degree photography students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas State University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Photography Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. Texas State is a large school located in San Marcos, Texas that handed out 23 bachelors’s photography degrees in 2019-2020.
Texas State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Photography Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $15,230 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Photography students per year to attend Texas State.
With a ranking of #6, Saint Edward’s University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Photography Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Austin, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s photography degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree photography students list, St. Edward’s University has also earned the #6 rank in our “Best Photography Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for St. Edward’s University is $24,833 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Photography students.
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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
- *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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