2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Women’s Studies in the Southwest Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Women’s Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2021-2022, 2,918 people earned their degree in women’s studies, making the major the 259th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 136 women’s studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 women’s studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,912 and $102,180 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Women’s Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in women’s studies. That schools that top this list have a program in women’s studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Women’s Studies Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree women’s studies students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Women’s Studies in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Woman’s University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Women’s Studies Major in the Southwest Region. TWU is a public institution located in Denton, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 3 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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 full report on Women’s Studies at TWU
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Women’s Studies Major in the Southwest Region. University of Arizona is a large public school situated in Tucson, Arizona. It awarded 3 doctorate’s women’s studies degrees 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 full report on Women’s Studies at University of Arizona
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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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