by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 a Master’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Project Management is the 250th most popular major in the country with 4,189 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 656 project management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 92 project management graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in project management. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in project management.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree project management students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Amberton University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region. Amberton is a small school located in Garland, Texas that handed out 39 masters’s project management degrees in 2021-2022.
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Aspen University landed the #2 spot on the list. Aspen University is a medium-sized private for-profit school situated in Phoenix, Arizona. It awarded 29 masters’s project management degrees in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.4% 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%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dallas Baptist University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Dallas, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s project management students in 2021-2022.
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Baptist University landed the #4 spot on the list. Shawnee, Oklahoma is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s project management degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Sam Houston State University landed the #5 spot on the list. SHSU is a large public school situated in Huntsville, Texas. It awarded 12 masters’s project management degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%.
Wayland Baptist University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Project Management Major in the Southwest Region ranking. This small school is located in Plainview, Texas, and it awarded 0 masters’s project management degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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