2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Arts, Entertainment, & Media Management in the Southwest Region

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In 2021-2022, 1,081 people earned their degree in general arts, entertainment, & media management, making the major the 437th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 49 general arts, entertainment, & media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 general arts, entertainment, & media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Arts, Entertainment,& Media Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general arts, entertainment, & media management. That schools that top this list have a program in general arts, entertainment, & media management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Arts, Entertainment,& Media Management Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree general arts, entertainment,& media management students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Arts, Entertainment, & Media Management in the Southwest Region

1

University of Houston
Houston, Texas

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Arts, Entertainment,& Media Management Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston landed the #1 spot on the list. UH is a public institution located in Houston, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 14 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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%.

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2

Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Arts, Entertainment,& Media Management Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Tempe, Arizona, this large public school handed out 4 degrees to qualified masters’s general arts, entertainment,& media management students in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Arts, Entertainment, & Media Management at ASU - Tempe

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

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