2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Project Management 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 has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2021-2022, 4,189 people earned their degree in project management, making the major the 250th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 656 project management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 project management graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.

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

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree project management students.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Project Management in the Southwest Region

1

Northern New Mexico College
Espanola, New Mexico

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern New Mexico College landed the #1 spot on the list. Northern New Mexico College is located in Espanola, New Mexico and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s project management degrees to qualified students.

Full Northern New Mexico College Project Management Report

2

University of the Incarnate Word
San Antonio, Texas

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of the Incarnate Word landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in San Antonio, Texas, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s project management degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Project Management at University of the Incarnate Word

3

Amberton University
Garland, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Amberton University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region. This small school is located in Garland, Texas, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s project management degrees in 2021-2022.

Full Amberton Project Management Report

4

University of North Texas
Denton, Texas

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Texas. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region. Denton, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s project management degrees to 4 students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Project Management at University of North Texas

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.