2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Business Analytics in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Business Analytics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 2,422 people earned their degree in business analytics, making the major the 498th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 89 business analytics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 64 business analytics 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 Business Analytics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in business analytics. That schools that top this list have a program in business analytics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The business analytics school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Analytics Major in the Southwest Region”.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Analytics Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree business analytics students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Business Analytics in the Southwest Region

1

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Edinburg, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Analytics Major in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in Edinburg, Texas, and it awarded 63 masters’s business analytics degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.1% 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 UT Rio Grande Valley Business Analytics Report

2

Amberton University
Garland, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Amberton University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Analytics Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Garland, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified masters’s business analytics students in 2021-2022.

Full Amberton Business Analytics Report

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

• *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.