2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Communications in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Communications is the 67th most popular major in the country with 12,166 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 2,568 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,912 and $102,180 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in communications in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree communication arts students.
Top 1 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Communications in the Southwest Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in College Station, Texas, this large public school handed out 7 degrees to qualified doctorate’s communication arts students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Communications at Texas A&M University - College Station
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Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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