2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Ethnic Studies in the Southwest Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Ethnic Studies is the 99th most popular major in the country with 9,323 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , ethnic studies graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $30,818 and had an average of $21,141 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 450 ethnic studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,632 and $20,891 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 54 ethnic studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 8 colleges that offered a degree in ethnic studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their ethnic studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree ethnic studies students.
Top 8 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Ethnic Studies in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southeastern Oklahoma State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in the Southwest Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Durant, Oklahoma, and it awarded 23 masters’s ethnic studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Southeastern Oklahoma State University Ethnic Studies Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Woman’s University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in the Southwest Region list. Denton, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s ethnic studies degrees to 6 students 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%.
Read full report on Ethnic Studies at TWU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in the Southwest Region list. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s ethnic studies degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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 more about Ethnic Studies at UNM
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus landed the #4 spot on the list. University of Oklahoma is located in Norman, Oklahoma and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 4 masters’s ethnic studies degrees to qualified students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Oklahoma Norman Campus Ethnic Studies Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Austin. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Austin, Texas, this large public school handed out 10 diplomas to qualified masters’s ethnic studies students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Ethnic Studies at The University of Texas at Austin
University of Arizona ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Tucson, Arizona, this large public school awarded 43 diplomas to qualified masters’s ethnic studies students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Ethnic Studies at University of Arizona
With a ranking of #7, University of North Texas did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in the Southwest Region list. UNT is a large school located in Denton, Texas that handed out 3 masters’s ethnic studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full UNT Ethnic Studies Report
Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #8 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Located in Tempe, Arizona, this large public school handed out 6 diplomas to qualified masters’s ethnic studies students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.
Read more about Ethnic Studies at Arizona State University - Tempe
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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
- *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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