2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Apparel & Textiles in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Apparel and Textiles Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Apparel & Textiles is the 279th most popular major in the country with 2,069 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southwest region, there were 63 general apparel & textiles graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 63 general apparel & textiles 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 Apparel and Textiles Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in general apparel & textiles. That schools that top this list have a program in general apparel & textiles in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Apparel and Textiles Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Apparel and Textiles Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 5 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Apparel & Textiles in the Southwest Region

1

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

#6 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Austin. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Apparel and Textiles Major in the Southwest Region list. Austin, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s apparel and textiles degrees to 41 students in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. 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 General Apparel & Textiles at UT Austin

2

Tarleton State University
Stephenville, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tarleton State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Apparel and Textiles Major in the Southwest Region. Tarleton is a fairly large public school situated in Stephenville, Texas. It awarded 5 bachelors’s apparel and textiles degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Apparel & Textiles at Tarleton State University

3

New Mexico State University - Main Campus
Las Cruces, New Mexico

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Apparel and Textiles Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. Las Cruces, New Mexico is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s apparel and textiles degrees to 12 students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.9% 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 General Apparel & Textiles at NMSU Main Campus

4

Lamar University
Beaumont, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lamar University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Apparel and Textiles Major in the Southwest Region list. Beaumont, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s apparel and textiles degrees to 5 students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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 General Apparel & Textiles at Lamar University

5

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Apparel and Textiles Major in the Southwest Region list. University of Arizona is located in Tucson, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s apparel and textiles degrees to qualified students.

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 General Apparel & Textiles 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.

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