2024 Best Communications Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
10
Colleges in the Southwest Region
229
Master's Degrees
Communications is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #184 most popular master's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 10 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Communications Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 229 master's degrees in communications during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Communications School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of communications for getting your master'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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master'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 much a school focuses on communications students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of communications students who choose to seek a master'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 communications related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for communications students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Communications Schools
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 Communications Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.