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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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Telcom Tech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Telecommunications Technology is the 895th most popular major in the country with 451 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 2 telecommunications technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 0 telecommunications technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in telecommunications technology.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree telcom tech students.
Top 1 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Telecommunications Technology in the Southwest Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Telcom Tech Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #1 spot on the list. Southern Methodist University is a fairly large school located in Dallas, Texas that handed out 0 masters’s telcom tech 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 Telecommunications Technology Report
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.
