Southwest College for the Deaf
About
Southwest College for the Deaf (SWCD) is a campus of Howard College located in Big Spring, Texas, providing specialized education to deaf and hard-of-hearing students. The institution focuses on offering a supportive educational environment tailored to meet the needs of these students, contributing to their academic and career success.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 369 borrowers who entered repayment, 13 (3.5%) defaulted within three years — above the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at SCD
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Top program families by completions
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
SCD vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions SCD selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectSouthwest College for the Deaf | 40% | — | 47 | $5,355 | Community College |
Aiken Technical College | — | — | 2,307 | $5,350 | Community College |
Baltimore City Community College | — | — | 4,375 | $9,769 | Community College |
Berkshire Community College | — | — | 1,694 | $8,177 | Community College |
Big Sandy Community and Technical College | — | — | 2,618 | $4,530 | Community College |
Butler County Community College | — | — | 2,317 | $6,075 | Community College |
Carteret Community College | — | — | 1,614 | $11,889 | Community College |
Cecil College | — | — | 1,749 | $10,097 | Community College |
Central Maine Community College | — | — | 4,754 | $7,489 | Community College |
Chattahoochee Valley Community College | — | — | 1,705 | $5,814 | Community College |
Chesapeake College | — | — | 2,095 | $4,178 | Community College |
Connors State College | — | — | 2,376 | $11,716 | Community College |
Copiah-Lincoln Community College | — | — | 2,932 | $3,472 | Community College |
Ellsworth Community College | — | — | 685 | $10,915 | Community College |
Fletcher Technical Community College | — | — | 2,663 | $10,689 | Community College |
John Wood Community College | — | — | 1,856 | $6,596 | Community College |
Montcalm Community College | — | — | 1,751 | $4,352 | Community College |
National Park College | — | — | 1,805 | $11,442 | Community College |
New Mexico Junior College | — | — | 2,235 | $6,431 | Community College |
North Arkansas College | — | — | 2,089 | $10,146 | Community College |
Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College | — | — | 1,962 | $11,121 | Community College |
Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute | — | — | 493 | $17,769 | Community College |
Rowan College of South Jersey-Cumberland Campus | — | — | 2,686 | $6,549 | Community College |
Southwest Mississippi Community College | — | — | 1,758 | $3,057 | Community College |
Southwestern Michigan College | — | — | 2,000 | $6,463 | Community College |
University of Arkansas Community College Rich Mountain | — | — | 786 | $4,914 | Community College |
Vernon College | — | — | 2,299 | $6,571 | Community College |
Victoria College | — | — | 3,276 | $4,550 | Community College |
Western Oklahoma State College | — | — | 1,162 | $7,461 | Community College |
Williston State College | — | — | 934 | $7,164 | Community College |
| Peer group median | 40% | — | 1,981 | $6,584 |
SCD Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
The Institutional Effectiveness page at Southwest College for the Deaf includes quick links to student achievement data, planning resources, and various survey results, such as the Graduate Survey Results and the Student Satisfaction Survey. It also mentions Quickfacts, a bi-annual publication of statistical data.
Visit IR office pageReports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
Frequently asked questions about Southwest College for the Deaf
Quick answers to the questions most often asked about SCD.
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Who runs Institutional Research at Southwest College for the Deaf?
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