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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2021-2022, 3,583 people earned their degree in junior high/intermediate/middle school education & teaching, making the major the 197th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 244 junior high/intermediate/middle school education & teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 34 junior high/intermediate/middle school education & teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 8 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in junior high/intermediate/middle school education & teaching. That schools that top this list have a program in junior high/intermediate/middle school education & teaching in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree junior high/intermediate/middle school education and teaching students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lubbock Christian University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region. Lubbock, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s junior high/intermediate/middle school education and teaching degrees to 7 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Wayland Baptist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Wayland Baptist University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Plainview, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. 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.
Read more about Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching at Wayland Baptist University
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Howard Payne University landed the #3 spot on the list. Howard Payne is a small school located in Brownwood, Texas that handed out 0 bachelors’s junior high/intermediate/middle school education and teaching degrees in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% 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%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend McMurry University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region. McMurray University is a small school located in Abilene, Texas that handed out 0 bachelors’s junior high/intermediate/middle school education and teaching degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Schreiner University landed the #5 spot on the list. Schreiner University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Kerrville, Texas. It awarded 2 bachelors’s junior high/intermediate/middle school education and teaching degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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The University of Texas at San Antonio did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #6. San Antonio, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s junior high/intermediate/middle school education and teaching degrees to 18 students in 2021-2022.
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%.
Read full report on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching at The University of Texas at San Antonio
Abilene Christian University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Abilene Christian is a medium-sized school located in Abilene, Texas that handed out 3 bachelors’s junior high/intermediate/middle school education and teaching 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%.
Full Abilene Christian Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching Report
Jarvis Christian College ranked #8 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region list. This small school is located in Hawkins, Texas, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s junior high/intermediate/middle school education and teaching degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% 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%.
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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
- *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.
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