2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Communication, Journalism, & Related Programs in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Other Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Other Communication, Journalism, & Related Programs is the 404th most popular major in the country with 1,128 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 37 other communication, journalism, and related programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 other communication, journalism, and related programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Other Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other communication, journalism, and related programs. To top this list, a school must have a successful other communication, journalism, and related programs program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Other Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Other Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 3 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Communication, Journalism, & Related Programs in the Southwest Region

1

Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northern Arizona University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Other Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s. NAU is located in Flagstaff, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 bachelors’s other communication, journalism, and related programs degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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Northwestern Oklahoma State University
Alva, Oklahoma

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Other Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern Oklahoma State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Alva, Oklahoma, this small public school handed out 9 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s other communication, journalism, and related programs students in 2020-2021.

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University of St. Thomas
Houston, Texas

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Other Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of St. Thomas landed the #3 spot on the list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s other communication, journalism, and related programs degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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• Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Communication, Journalism, & Related Programs

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

Footnotes

• *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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Josh Hallett.