2025 Best Organizational Leadership Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

If you pursue a doctor's degree in organizational leadership, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #35 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Organizational Leadership Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 101 doctor's degrees in organizational leadership to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Organizational Leadership School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of organizational leadership for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to organizational leadership students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of organizational leadership students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized organizational leadership related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for organizational leadership students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Organizational Leadership Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Organizational Leadership Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Organizational Leadership in the Southwest Region

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for organizational leadership students seeking a a doctor's degree.

Top Southwest Region Schools for a Doctorate in Organizational Leadership

1

University of Phoenix - Arizona
Phoenix, AZ

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

45 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat University of Phoenix - Arizona if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in organizational leadership. Located in the large city of Phoenix, UOPX - Arizona is a private for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in organizational leadership from University of Phoenix - Arizona

2

Dallas Baptist University
Dallas, TX

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

15 Annual Graduates

Dallas Baptist University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in organizational leadership. Located in the large city of Dallas, DBU is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a doctorate in organizational leadership from Dallas Baptist University

3

Our Lady of the Lake University
San Antonio, TX

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

29 Annual Graduates

Our Lady of the Lake University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in organizational leadership. Located in the city of San Antonio, OLLU is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a doctorate in organizational leadership from Our Lady of the Lake University

Best Organizational Leadership Colleges by State

Explore the best organizational leadership colleges for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	309	59
Arizona	171	97

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Organizational Leadership Related Rankings by Major

Organizational Leadership is one of 16 different types of Business Administration & Management programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Organizational Leadership

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Business Administration and Management	321
Interior Design Management	1

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.