2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Speech Pathology & Audiology in the Southwest Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Audiology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 8,306 people earned their degree in speech pathology & audiology, making the major the 103rd most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 444 speech pathology & audiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 102 speech pathology & audiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Audiology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in speech pathology & audiology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in speech pathology & audiology.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Audiology Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree audiology students.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Speech Pathology & Audiology in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Audiology Major in the Southwest Region list. ENMU - Main Campus is a medium-sized public school situated in Portales, New Mexico. It awarded 59 masters’s audiology degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Speech Pathology & Audiology at Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Audiology Major in the Southwest Region. New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a fairly large school located in Las Cruces, New Mexico that handed out 18 masters’s audiology degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Speech Pathology & Audiology at New Mexico State University - Main Campus
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at El Paso. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Audiology Major in the Southwest Region. UTEP is a large school located in El Paso, Texas that handed out 25 masters’s audiology degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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 UTEP Speech Pathology & Audiology Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Oklahoma - Health Sciences Center. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Audiology Major in the Southwest Region list. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s audiology degrees to 8 students in 2021-2022.
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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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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%.
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- *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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