2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Teacher Development & Methodology Major in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Teacher Development & Methodology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Teacher Development & Methodology is the 156th most popular major in the country with 6,929 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southwest region, there were 107 teacher development & methodology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 teacher development & methodology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Teacher Development & Methodology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in teacher development & methodology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their teacher development & methodology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Teacher Development & Methodology Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree teacher development & methodology students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Development & Methodology in the Southwest Region

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Arlington Baptist University
Arlington, Texas

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Teacher Development & Methodology Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arlington Baptist University landed the #1 spot on the list. ABU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Arlington, Texas. It awarded 4 bachelors’s teacher development & methodology degrees in 2021-2022.

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Ottawa University - Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ottawa University - Phoenix. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Teacher Development & Methodology Major in the Southwest Region list. Ottawa University - Phoenix is a small school located in Phoenix, Arizona that handed out 1 bachelors’s teacher development & methodology degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

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Ottawa University - Surprise
Surprise, Arizona

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ottawa University - Surprise. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Teacher Development & Methodology Major in the Southwest Region list. This small school is located in Surprise, Arizona, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s teacher development & methodology degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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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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.

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