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In 2021-2022, 6,553 people earned their degree in engineering-related fields, making the major the 112th most popular in the United States. In , engineering-related fields graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $77,404 and had an average of $26,058 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 411 engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,454 and $29,052 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 103 engineering-related fields 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 Engineering-Related Fields Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 9 colleges that offer a degree in engineering-related fields. That schools that top this list have a program in engineering-related fields in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in the Southwest Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in the Southwest Region. New Mexico Tech is a small school located in Socorro, New Mexico that handed out 2 bachelors’s engineering-related fields degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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 undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, St. Mary’s University landed the #2 spot on the list. San Antonio, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering-related fields degrees to 1 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Skysong. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in the Southwest Region list. ASU - Skysong is a large school located in Scottsdale, Arizona that handed out 51 bachelors’s engineering-related fields degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #4 spot on the list. ASU - Tempe is a public institution located in Tempe, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 33 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State University landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in San Marcos, Texas, this large public school handed out 2 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s engineering-related fields students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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University of Arizona did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #6. Located in Tucson, Arizona, this large public school awarded 14 degrees to qualified bachelors’s engineering-related fields students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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University of the Incarnate Word came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in the Southwest Region ranking. University of the Incarnate Word is a medium-sized school located in San Antonio, Texas that handed out 0 bachelors’s engineering-related fields degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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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With a ranking of #7, Southern Methodist University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in the Southwest Region list. SMU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Dallas, Texas. It awarded 50 bachelors’s engineering-related fields degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.
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University of North Texas came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in the Southwest Region ranking. This large school is located in Denton, Texas, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s engineering-related fields degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.8% 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%.
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- *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.
