2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Office Administration 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 Office Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Office Administration is the 303rd most popular major in the country with 3,577 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southwest region, there were 203 office administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 89 office administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Office Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in office administration. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their office administration program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Office Management Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Office Administration in the Southwest Region

1

Western Technical College
El Paso, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Technical College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Office Management Major in the Southwest Region. El Paso, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s office management degrees to 26 students in 2021-2022.

Read more about Office Administration at Western Technical College

2

Western Technical College
El Paso, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Technical College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Office Management Major in the Southwest Region. This small school is located in El Paso, Texas, and it awarded 27 bachelors’s office management degrees in 2021-2022.

Read full report on Office Administration at Western Technical College

3

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

#10 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Methodist University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Office Management Major in the Southwest Region. Southern Methodist University is located in Dallas, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 36 bachelors’s office management degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Office Administration at SMU

4

Tarleton State University
Stephenville, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tarleton State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Office Management Major in the Southwest Region list. Tarleton is located in Stephenville, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s office management degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Tarleton 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.