2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication Management and Strategic Communications in the Southeast Region

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Communication Management and Strategic Communications is the 352nd most popular major in the country with 1,802 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southeast region, there were 455 communication management and strategic communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 164 communication management and strategic communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Management and Strategic Communications Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in communication management and strategic communications. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in communication management and strategic communications.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Management and Strategic Communications Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree communication management and strategic communications students.

Top 5 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication Management and Strategic Communications in the Southeast Region

1

Elon University
Elon, North Carolina

#12 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Management and Strategic Communications Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Elon University landed the #1 spot on the list. Elon, North Carolina is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s communication management and strategic communications degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Elon Communication Management and Strategic Communications Report

2

Hampton University
Hampton, Virginia

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Management and Strategic Communications Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Hampton University landed the #2 spot on the list. Hampton University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Hampton, Virginia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Communication Management and Strategic Communications at Hampton University

3

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Top 10% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Management and Strategic Communications Major in the Southeast Region list. Lexington, Kentucky is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s communication management and strategic communications degrees to 162 students in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Communication Management and Strategic Communications at University of Kentucky

4

Campbell University
Buies Creek, North Carolina

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Management and Strategic Communications Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Campbell University landed the #4 spot on the list. Campbell is a private not-for-profit institution located in Buies Creek, North Carolina. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Communication Management and Strategic Communications at Campbell

5

Xavier University of Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Xavier University of Louisiana. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Management and Strategic Communications Major in the Southeast Region list. XULA is a small private not-for-profit school situated in New Orleans, Louisiana. It awarded 0 bachelors’s communication management and strategic communications degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Communication Management and Strategic Communications at XULA

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.