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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2021-2022, 3,287 people earned their degree in other communication & media studies, making the major the 236th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 72 other communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 59 other communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other communication & media studies. That schools that top this list have a program in other communication & media studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree other communication and media studies students.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Baptist University landed the #1 spot on the list. Oklahoma Baptist University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Shawnee, Oklahoma. The school has a small population, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Other Communication & Media Studies at OBU
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Dallas, Texas, and it awarded 41 bachelors’s other communication and media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full SMU Other Communication & Media Studies Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cameron University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Southwest Region list. Cameron University is located in Lawton, Oklahoma and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 6 bachelors’s other communication and media studies degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Other Communication & Media Studies at Cameron University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the Incarnate Word. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in San Antonio, Texas, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s other communication and media studies students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full University of the Incarnate Word Other Communication & Media Studies Report
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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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