2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region
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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 8,146 people earned their degree in linguistics & comparative literature, making the major the 96th most popular in the United States. In , linguistics & comparative literature graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $28,017 and had an average of $21,077 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 892 linguistics & comparative literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,144 and $20,286 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 385 linguistics & comparative literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 24 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in linguistics & comparative literature. That schools that top this list have a program in linguistics & comparative literature in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree comparative literature students.
Top 24 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Linguistics & Comparative Literature in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, this fairly large public school awarded 38 degrees to qualified bachelors’s comparative literature 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%.
Full NMSU Main Campus Linguistics & Comparative Literature Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s comparative literature degrees to 13 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%.
Full UNM Linguistics & Comparative Literature Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at El Paso. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region list. The University of Texas at El Paso is located in El Paso, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 20 bachelors’s comparative literature degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Linguistics & Comparative Literature at UTEP
Out of the 24 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Stephen F Austin State University landed the #4 spot on the list. SFASU is a fairly large public school situated in Nacogdoches, Texas. It awarded 11 bachelors’s comparative literature degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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%.
Full SFASU Linguistics & Comparative Literature Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Dallas. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region list. The University of Texas at Dallas is a large school located in Richardson, Texas that handed out 34 bachelors’s comparative literature degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.
Read more about Linguistics & Comparative Literature at The University of Texas at Dallas
Rice University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Located in Houston, Texas, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 12 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s comparative literature students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Full Rice University Linguistics & Comparative Literature Report
Cameron University landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Located in Lawton, Oklahoma, this small public school handed out 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s comparative literature students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Linguistics & Comparative Literature at Cameron University
The University of Texas at Arlington did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #8. The University of Texas at Arlington is a public institution located in Arlington, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 33 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Linguistics & Comparative Literature at UT Arlington
Northern Arizona University ranked #9 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region list. Northern Arizona University is located in Flagstaff, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 19 bachelors’s comparative literature degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full NAU Linguistics & Comparative Literature Report
Oklahoma Baptist University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #10. OBU is located in Shawnee, Oklahoma and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s comparative literature degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Linguistics & Comparative Literature at OBU
The University of Texas at San Antonio ranked #11 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region list. UTSA is a large school located in San Antonio, Texas that handed out 38 bachelors’s comparative literature degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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 Linguistics & Comparative Literature at UTSA
University of North Texas came in at #12 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Denton, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s comparative literature degrees to 26 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.8% 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%.
Full University of North Texas Linguistics & Comparative Literature Report
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus ranked #13 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Norman, Oklahoma, this large public school handed out 8 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s comparative literature students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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 Linguistics & Comparative Literature at University of Oklahoma
The University of Texas at Austin landed the #14 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region ranking. The University of Texas at Austin is a large school located in Austin, Texas that handed out 50 bachelors’s comparative literature degrees 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.
Read more about Linguistics & Comparative Literature at UT Austin
Texas Tech University landed the #15 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Texas Tech University is a public institution located in Lubbock, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
Read full report on Linguistics & Comparative Literature at Texas Tech University
University of Arizona ranked #16 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region list. University of Arizona is a large public school situated in Tucson, Arizona. It awarded 32 bachelors’s comparative literature degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Arizona Linguistics & Comparative Literature Report
With a ranking of #17, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in Edinburg, Texas, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s comparative literature degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Linguistics & Comparative Literature at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Oral Roberts University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #18. Oral Roberts University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It awarded 3 bachelors’s comparative literature 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
Read full report on Linguistics & Comparative Literature at ORU
Our Lady of the Lake University came in at #19 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region ranking. OLLU is a private not-for-profit institution located in San Antonio, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full OLLU Linguistics & Comparative Literature Report
Baylor University came in at #20 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Waco, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s comparative literature degrees to 8 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% 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 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Linguistics & Comparative Literature at Baylor
Lamar University landed the #21 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Beaumont, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s comparative literature degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Linguistics & Comparative Literature at Lamar University
University of Houston ranked #22 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Houston, Texas, this large public school awarded 8 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s comparative literature students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
Full UH Linguistics & Comparative Literature Report
Texas A&M University - College Station ranked #23 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region list. College Station, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s comparative literature degrees to 8 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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 full report on Linguistics & Comparative Literature at Texas A&M University - College Station
With a ranking of #24, University of Dallas did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Comparative Literature Major in the Southwest Region list. UD is a small school located in Irving, Texas that handed out 0 bachelors’s comparative literature degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full UD Linguistics & Comparative Literature Report
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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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