2023 Top Southwest Region Women's Outdoor Track and Field Schools
4Colleges
$39,267Avg Tuition & Fees*
55%Avg 4-Year Grad Rate*
With all of the options student athletes have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our Best Colleges for Women's Outdoor Track and Field in the Southwest Region ranking - to help you make that decision.
Our analysis looked at 4 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for Women's Outdoor Track and Field athletes in the Southwest Region. To come up with this ranking, we look at a number of factors that are all objective measurements. These factors include the school's overall quality as determined by our Best Colleges ranking and the athletic competitiveness of the school. Thus, in order to rank well, the school must offer a quality education in addition to having a great sports team.
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Top Colleges in the Southwest Region for Women's Outdoor Track and Field athletes in the Southwest Region
Texas A&M University - College Station tops this year’s ranking as the best school for Women’s Outdoor Track and Field athletes in the Southwest Region. Located in College Station, Texas, the large public school 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. In addition to its Best Colleges for Women’s Outdoor Track and Field in the Southwest Region ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Texas A&M College Station is ranked #4 for overall quality in the Southwest Region .
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You’ll join some of the best athletes around if you attend The University of Texas at Austin. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. Located in Austin, Texas, the large public school awarded 10,374 diplomas to qualified bachelor’s degree students in .
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. UT Austin did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our overall quality list.
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The excellent sports programs at Baylor University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for Women’s Outdoor Track and Field athletes in the Southwest Region. Baylor University is a large private not-for-profit school located in Waco, Texas that handed out 3,698 bachelor’s degrees 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. As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Baylor also is in the top 10% of our overall quality ranking.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Colleges for Women’s Outdoor Track and Field athletes in the Southwest Region list. Located in Lubbock, Texas, the large public school handed out 6,886 bachelor’s degrees in .
On top of its placing in this ranking, Texas Tech also did well on our overall quality list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.
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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%.
