With all of the options student athletes have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our Best Colleges for Rifle in the Southwest Region ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
We analyzed 2 colleges and universities across the Southwest Region to determine which were the best for Rifle athletes in the Southwest Region. To come up with this ranking, we look at a number of factors that are all objective measurements. These factors include the school's overall quality as determined by our Best Colleges ranking and the athletic competitiveness of the school. Thus, in order to rank well, the school must offer a quality education in addition to having a great sports team.
Since one ranking on its own is not enough to give you a complete understanding of your educational options, you can refine this list by location. We've also developed a number of other tools and rankings based on other factors. These other rankings highlight colleges that excel in other factors such as value or diversity as well as schools that excel in serving different groups of students such as online students or returnings adults.
We've created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don't have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
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Top Colleges in the Southwest Region for Rifle athletes in the Southwest Region
Our analysis found Texas Christian University to be the best school for Rifle athletes in the Southwest Region in this year’s ranking. This fairly large private not-for-profit school is located in Fort Worth, Texas, and it awarded 2,529 bachelor’s degrees in .
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. TCU did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our overall quality list.
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You’ll join some of the best athletes around if you attend The University of Texas at El Paso. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. El Paso, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 3,974 students in .
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 schools only.
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.
The academic progress rate (APR) of each team was made available by the NCAA.
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%.
