2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Area Studies in Texas

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in Texas” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Area Studies is the 115th most popular major in the country with 6,257 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , area studies graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $33,127 and had an average of $22,500 in loans still to pay off.

Across Texas, there were 695 area studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,469 and $20,750 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 69 area studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,412 and $101,824 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in Texas” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in area studies. That schools that top this list have a program in area studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in Texas

The colleges and universities below are the best for texas doctor’s degree area studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Area Studies in Texas

1

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Fort Worth, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in Texas. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is a private not-for-profit institution located in Fort Worth, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 58 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.

Read full report on Area Studies at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

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The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

#2 overall quality in Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at Austin. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in Texas. Located in Austin, Texas, this large public school awarded 11 degrees to qualified doctorate’s area studies students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Area Studies at The University of Texas at Austin

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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Karl Udo Gerth.