2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Studies 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 Individualized Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Individualized Studies is the 38th most popular major in the country with 36,716 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 565 individualized studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 388 individualized studies 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 Individualized Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer a degree in individualized studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their individualized studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree individualized studies students.
Top 8 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Individualized Studies in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wayland Baptist University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in the Southwest Region list. Wayland Baptist University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Plainview, Texas. It awarded 148 bachelors’s individualized studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. 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%.
Full Wayland Baptist University Individualized Studies Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bacone College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Muskogee, Oklahoma, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s individualized studies students in 2021-2022.
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Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Oklahoma is located in Norman, Oklahoma and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 76 bachelors’s individualized studies degrees to qualified students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Individualized Studies at University of Oklahoma
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Dallas, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 40 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s individualized studies 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Individualized Studies at SMU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Concordia University, Texas. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in the Southwest Region list. Concordia University, Texas is a small school located in Austin, Texas that handed out 7 bachelors’s individualized studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Individualized Studies at Concordia University, Texas
Rogers State University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #6. Located in Claremore, Oklahoma, this small public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s individualized studies students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Individualized Studies at Rogers State University
The University of Texas at Austin landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in the Southwest Region ranking. The University of Texas at Austin is a public institution located in Austin, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 113 bachelors’s 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 Individualized Studies at UT Austin
Jarvis Christian College landed the #8 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in the Southwest Region ranking. This small school is located in Hawkins, Texas, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s individualized studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% 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%.
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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.
