2025 Best Mathematics & Statistics Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
4Colleges in the Southwest Region
213Doctor's Degrees
Mathematics & Statistics is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #13 most popular doctor's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of mathematics & statistics. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 213 doctor's degrees in mathematics & statistics during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great Mathematics & Statistics School for Your Doctor's Degree
The mathematics & statistics doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality mathematics & statistics program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on mathematics & statistics students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other mathematics & statistics students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt mathematics & statistics students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized mathematics & statistics related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for mathematics & statistics students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Mathematics & Statistics Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Mathematics & Statistics Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Mathematics & Statistics in the Southwest Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in mathematics & statistics.
Top Southwest Region Schools for a Doctorate in Mathematics & Statistics
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).