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Arts & Media Management is the 136th most popular major in the country with 4,667 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , arts & media management graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $33,544 and had an average of $32,084 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 383 arts & media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,893 and $21,070 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 31 arts & 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 Media Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in arts & media management. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in arts & media management.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the Southwest Region”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #1 spot on the list. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s media management degrees to 13 students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full SMU Arts & Media Management Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Houston. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Houston, Texas, this large public school handed out 14 degrees to qualified masters’s media management students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Arts & Media Management at UH
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the Southwest Region list. Arizona State University - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 4 masters’s media management degrees 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 full report on Arts & Media Management at ASU - Tempe
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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%.
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- *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.
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