2025 Best General Writing Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
119General Writing Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in general writing, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #500 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best General Writing Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 119 degrees in general writing to qualified students.
The general writing program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Writing rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general writing schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
The general writing 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 the Best General Writing Schools in the Southwest Region.
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Best Schools for General Writing in the Southwest Region
The schools below may not offer all types of general writing degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
The University of Texas at Austin is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in general writing. UT Austin is a fairly large public university located in the city of Austin. A Best Colleges rank of #46 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UT Austin is a great university overall.
There were roughly 49 general writing students who graduated with this degree at UT Austin in the most recent data year.
Texas Christian University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in general writing. TCU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Fort Worth. This university ranks 4th out of 115 colleges for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were roughly 12 general writing students who graduated with this degree at TCU in the most recent year we have data available.
Saint Edward's University is a wonderful choice for students interested in a degree in general writing. Located in the city of Austin, St. Edward's University is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 52nd out of 115 colleges for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were roughly 24 general writing students who graduated with this degree at St. Edward's University in the most recent data year.
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).
The general writing program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Writing rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general writing schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
