2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Office Administration in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students 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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Office Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2021-2022, 3,577 people earned their degree in office administration, making the major the 303rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 203 office administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 46 office administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,470 and $15,074 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Office Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in office administration. That schools that top this list have a program in office administration in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Office Management Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree office management students.

Top 5 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Office Administration in the Southwest Region

1

Texas State Technical College
Waco, Texas

Top 5% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas State Technical College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Office Management Major in the Southwest Region list. TSTC is located in Waco, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 35 associates’s office management degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%.

Full TSTC Office Administration Report

2

Clovis Community College
Clovis, New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clovis Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Office Management Major in the Southwest Region list. This small school is located in Clovis, New Mexico, and it awarded 10 associates’s office management degrees in 2021-2022.

Full Clovis Community College Office Administration Report

3

Temple College
Temple, Texas

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Office Management Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Temple College landed the #3 spot on the list. Temple College is a small public school situated in Temple, Texas. It awarded 1 associates’s office management degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Office Administration at Temple College

4

Eastern New Mexico University - Roswell Campus
Roswell, New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern New Mexico University - Roswell Campus. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Office Management Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Roswell, New Mexico, this small public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified associates’s office management students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full ENMU - Roswell Campus Office Administration Report

4

Northern New Mexico College
Espanola, New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern New Mexico College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Office Management Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Espanola, New Mexico, this small public school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified associates’s office management students in 2021-2022.

Full Northern New Mexico College Office Administration Report

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.