2022 Best Value Housing & Human Environments Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Housing & Human Environments Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Housing & Human Environments is the 819th most popular major in the country with 192 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 4 general housing and human environments graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general housing and human environments programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general housing and human environments program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Housing & Human Environments Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Housing & Human Environments Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Housing & Human Environments Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for General Housing & Human Environments (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$12,317 Average Net Price

$45,177 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Housing & Human Environments Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Tech University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Lubbock, Texas, this large public school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified ’s housing and human environments students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Texas Tech, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Housing & Human Environments Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $12,317 for southwest region housing & human environments students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Texas Tech University.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about General Housing & Human Environments at Texas Tech

• Best Value Colleges for General Housing & Human Environments (Income $0-$30k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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