2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communications Technology in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Communications Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 823 people earned their degree in communications technology, making the major the 272nd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, communications technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $18,680 and had an average of $18,803 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 28 communications technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $37,854 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 communications technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great communications technology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the communications technology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Value Communications Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Communications Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree communications tech students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communications Technology in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

University of Houston - Clear Lake

Houston, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$19,216 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$54,435 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston - Clear Lake. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Communications Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. University of Houston - Clear Lake is a medium-sized public school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 9 masters’s communications tech degrees in 2019-2020.

UH Clear Lake also took the #1 spot in our “Best Communications Technology Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Houston - Clear Lake are $19,216, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communications Technology (With Aid)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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