2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Systems Engineering is the 160th most popular major in the country with 3,802 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , systems engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $90,096 and had an average of $27,162 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 312 systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,448 and $13,650 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 82 systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in systems engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their systems engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree systems engineering students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering in the Southwest Region

1

Texas A&M International University
Laredo, Texas

$31,586 Average Early-Career Earnings

$8,800 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M International University landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas A&M International University is a public institution located in Laredo, Texas. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 45 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Systems Engineering at Texas A&M International University

2

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

$65,275 Average Early-Career Earnings

$18,500 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it awarded 37 bachelors’s systems engineering degrees 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%.

Read more about Systems Engineering at University of Arizona

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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