2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Medieval Studies in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Medieval Studies Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Medieval Studies is the 346th most popular major in the country with 104 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, medieval studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 7 medieval studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 medieval studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Medieval Studies Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in medieval studies. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular medieval studies programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Medieval Studies Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree medieval studies students.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Medieval Studies in the Southwest Region

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Rice University
Houston, Texas

#1 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Medieval Studies Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Rice University landed the #1 spot on the list. Rice is a medium-sized school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 1 bachelors’s medieval studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.2% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. 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.

Read full report on Medieval Studies at Rice University

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Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

#10 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Medieval Studies Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s list. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s medieval studies degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Medieval Studies at SMU

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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

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Edmund Leighton.