2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Business/Corporate Communications in the Far Western US Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 1,027 people earned their degree in business/corporate communications, making the major the 439th most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 152 business/corporate communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 150 business/corporate communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,720 and $23,024 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in business/corporate communications. That schools that top this list have a program in business/corporate communications in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Far Western US Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Business/Corporate Communications in the Far Western US Region

1

Chapman University
Orange, California

Top 20% overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Chapman University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Far Western US Region list. Chapman is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Orange, California. It awarded 130 bachelors’s business communications degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Business/Corporate Communications at Chapman

2

Holy Names University
Oakland, California

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Holy Names University landed the #2 spot on the list. HNU is a small school located in Oakland, California that handed out 1 bachelors’s business communications degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Business/Corporate Communications at Holy Names University

3

National University
La Jolla, California

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, National University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in La Jolla, California, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 19 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s business communications students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Business/Corporate Communications at National University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Business/Corporate Communications

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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