2023 Top Southwest Region Women's D1 Outdoor Track and Field Schools
4Colleges
$39,267Avg Tuition & Fees*
55%Avg 4-Year Grad Rate*
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Our analysis looked at 4 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for D1 Women's Outdoor Track and Field athletes in the Southwest Region. Our ranking methodology focuses a number of different objective factors - such as the overall quality of the school, the school's athletic competitiveness, and the amount of athletic aid per student - to make this determination. Having a great sports team is not enough - the school must also focus on academic excellence.
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Top Colleges in the Southwest Region for D1 Women's Outdoor Track and Field athletes in the Southwest Region
Our 2023 rankings named Texas A&M University - College Station the best school for D1 Women’s Outdoor Track and Field athletes in the Southwest Region working on their bachelor’s degree. Texas A&M University - College Station is a large public school located in College Station, Texas that handed out 13,536 bachelor’s degrees in .
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Texas A&M College Station not only placed well in this ranking, but it is also #4 on our overall quality list.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Austin landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Austin, Texas, the large public school awarded 10,374 diplomas to qualified bachelor’s degree students in .
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. UT Austin not only placed well in this ranking, but it is also #2 on our overall quality list.
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A rank of #3 on our list means Baylor University is a great place for D1 Women’s Outdoor Track and Field athletes in the Southwest Region working on their bachelor’s degree. Waco, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 3,698 students in .
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Baylor excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our overall quality list.
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The excellent sports programs at Texas Tech University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for D1 Women’s Outdoor Track and Field athletes in the Southwest Region. Located in Lubbock, Texas, the large public school awarded 6,886 diplomas to qualified bachelor’s degree students in .
Texas Tech also claimed a spot on our overall quality list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 4 schools only.
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.
The academic progress rate (APR) of each team was made available by the NCAA.
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%.
