2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Educational Assessment in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2021-2022, 3,853 people earned their degree in educational assessment, making the major the 184th most popular in the United States. In , educational assessment graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $55,573 and had an average of $36,314 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 201 educational assessment graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,221 and $25,274 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 educational assessment graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,912 and $102,180 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in educational assessment. That schools that top this list have a program in educational assessment in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Educational Assessment in the Southwest Region

1

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Southwest Region. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s assessment degrees to 3 students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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 UNM Educational Assessment Report

2

Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas

#23 overall quality in Southwest

$82,752 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Southwest Region list. Texas Tech is located in Lubbock, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 5 doctorate’s assessment degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Educational Assessment at Texas Tech University

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.

Credits

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