2025 Best Educational Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

Ranked #73 in popularity, educational psychology is one of the most sought-after doctor's degree programs in the nation. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for educational psychology students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 70 doctor's degrees in educational psychology during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Educational Psychology School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of educational psychology for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality educational psychology program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on educational psychology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of educational psychology students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized educational psychology related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for educational psychology students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Educational Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Educational Psychology in the Southwest Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in educational psychology.

Top Southwest Region Schools for a Doctorate in Educational Psychology

1

Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, TX

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

11 Annual Graduates

Texas A&M University - College Station is a good decision for individuals pursuing a doctor's degree in educational psychology. Located in the midsize city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in educational psychology from Texas A&M University - College Station

2

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

22 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in educational psychology has to take a look at The University of Texas at Austin. Located in the city of Austin, UT Austin is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in educational psychology from The University of Texas at Austin

3

Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

10 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in educational psychology needs to check out Texas Tech University. Texas Tech is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Lubbock.More information about a doctorate in educational psychology from Texas Tech University

4

University of North Texas
Denton, TX

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

8 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat University of North Texas if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in educational psychology. Located in the midsize city of Denton, UNT is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in educational psychology from University of North Texas

Best Educational Psychology Colleges by State

Explore the best educational psychology schools for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	309	74
Arizona	171	10
Oklahoma	124	2
New Mexico	73	0

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Rankings in Majors Related to Educational Psychology

Educational Psychology is one of 17 different types of Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Educational Psychology

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Clinical Psychology	109
Counseling Psychology	76
Applied Behavior Analysis	50
School Psychology	32
Industrial & Organizational Psychology	17
Clinical Child Psychology	5

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.